Just thinking out loud and publicly reorganizing study notes is all.
The thanks is owed to those that were quoted, but your nice words are appreciated.
In reference to me focusing on Early horses, that was just an example.
Lone Early, Other Than Early, 3 matching Earlies, Chaos races, Marathon Races probably have "some" similar patterns, but my thought and query, correct or incorrect is that each one has a "look" or "trigger" unique to that pattern.
Although I think saving won races under various pattern categories to recognize them more and more, faster, is getting into the advanced stage for most.
Lets say you saved two or more won races from certain patterns and let's say the "pattern" that is not readily seen is the very 1st square, a "spiral" pattern :
Lone Early pattern or look :
http://www1.math.american.edu/People...esummer04.html
Multiple Sprinters in a Route (Other-Than-Early) pattern or look :
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...w=1024&bih=653
As novice Matcher's , in the murky, jungle, confusion of the Past Performance of the Racing Form, we cannot readily "see" these patterns , to see what has occurred "before", to see the "same" horse, different name.
We would like to advance to simply open the Racing Form and see the pattern as clearly and distinctly as we can see and know the difference as the above two examples.
I think to advance to even approaching THE HAT stage, these patterns almost have to literally
STAB you in the eye when you first open the form and look at the race.
What steps it takes to start, I am unsure.
VoodooFan