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It is wise to review basic tennants of the Methodology once in awhile. Howard Sartin got the idea of the tandem from one of his friends, a boxer, who noticed that the top middleweights took turns defeating one another. After studying it, he came to the conclusion that the WINNER last out, would come back doing exactly the same things that got him to win, while the competitior, would CHANGE the way he did things. One adapted, the other did not, so the outcome would go to the new strategy. Once applied to horses in head to head he advised that one gave BOTH the same number of beaten lengths when evaluating them realizing that the form cycle as well as the horse's connections had changed. Still works today