[Bill V.]

Once again ....

Great commentary Rich I'm with you on that subject ..

Markers..

From Pace Makes The Race -An Introduction To The Sartin Methodology
page 79 Michael Pizzola,

"Layoffs and layoff patterns are by far the most complex and, in my
opinion, the most profitable patterns in all of thorobred handicapping.
First, let me define a layoff as a period of thirty days or more between races.
There are long layoffs and short layoffs. Tom Brohamer, in Moder Pace Handicapping,
calls these short periods of 4 weeks "freshenings".
The first thing I like to do is note if there is a layoff somewhere in
the horses last three or four pacelines. If the last race was the race which"put
the horse in the barn" for a period of thirty days or more , we must answer
this question: How will the horse run after a layoff? .....
In my experience, the best indication that a horse will be able to run well
after a layoff is that he has done so succesfully in the past,"


Bill