Jim Bradshaw's Matchup - 8 Month Update

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Richie,GREAT JOB you could write a book yourself.Jeff

[VoodooFan]

It took me my 9th or 10th reading of the MatchUp 2 book to realize what Richie has posted on 2nd Key-Positioning/Beaten lengths; the Pace of Race, last line, the fastest, at todays distance, and todays track, TODAY, if possible. A good call to spend so much time on this subject(BEATEN LENGTHS AND POSITIONS); sometimes, a subject of extreme frustration trying to master the MatchUp.

1. Jim "The Hat" Bradshaw .......extraordinary. The MatchUp 2 book IS the Sartin Methodology in essence, in my opinion. If you combined The Yellow manual, The Pink Technical manual, The Tandem manual, The Psychology of Winning, The Chaos manaul, and all the concepts behind the computer software and put them together, it would be The MatchUp 2 book, in my opinion.
2. The MatchUp 2, springloaded and superconcentrated.......packed with examples. For such a small book, it carries a LOT of weight. Studying it feels like I am doin research for a thesis at Harvard. Studying it so hard, for a light book, my neck hurts, like it weighs as much as a thick law book or physicians desk reference manual. Your 1st 10 reads is ONLY the first round. With the many examples, along with Richie's past and recent post, we get to tune our mind to The Hat's "mental algorithms".
3. Have to be careful. Sometimes, I have to wash my hands 'fore I read the manual, cause I don't want to wear out the pages with my one and only copy of the book, best book on handicapping horses,maybe ever, you will find. Either that or get the entire book laminated.
4. From the First issue of the Follow Up, to the last Pirco publication, my opinion, and probably the opinion of most, the best teacher , the clearest and most clarity is Tom Brohamer, and maybe Doc, 2nd by a head; but Doc is a virtuoso; class by himself. He could talk sire and class with the best of 'em, or get down and dirty like The Hat. He could play all the instruments and all the styles. ...........but that opinion is now changed, PERMANTELY. RichieP's only on the 2nd Key, and my opinion, to me, is assured. If you took the clarity of Tom Brohamer+ the virtuosity of Doc Sartin+ the Genius of the Hat= RichieP. To explain the MatchUp, which IS the Sartin Methodology like THIS, boy o boy, what can you say. When you find somebody that can explain esoteric, advanced concepts to a 4 year old, THAT is a talent that is the top of talents in the world. Can you imagine what the world would be like if every teacher in any discipline can explain things like this? Where would you be, who would you be today? Check out a copy of Stikky Charts, explaining the stock market and predictions to kids, but not written exclusively for kids,great book.

1. Somebody just GOTS to show Doc these recent post by RichieP. The Hat's gotta be giddy with pride. The Hat and Doc should be preparing adoption papers for their proud Pirco son, RichieP.
2. Sartin members used to jab at Doc Sartin pepperin psychology in his presentations; members saying,"ok Doc, cut the psychology crap and show us which horse is goin to win the race". With Richies recent post, sounds like Mr. Bradshaw talkin like the Doc......definate kindred spirits and soul brothers, Doc and The Hat.
   1. Obi-Wan Kenobi : "....trust your feelings, Luke".
   2. Dr. Howard G. Sartin : ".....release the child within, let him free....".
      
   3. Jim "The Hat" Bradshaw : "...relax and open your mind".....
   4. Richie P : "....relax, look at what the picture shows.."

1. From these recent post , I'm truley wondering if Mr. Bradshaw was born in Oklahoma, or was born near AREA 51 .

1. I find myself goin back and forth between the "Blue" matchup book and the MatchUp 2....they seem on some parts to compliment each other. The "Blue" MatchUp manual, with the now publication of the MatchUp 2, seems to be an Advanced MatchUp manual, with some "Voodoo" like adjustments and procedures. With Richie's recent post, the term "Hat Trick", has solid scientific explanation to it. If Doc Sartin were to explain it, "voodoo" would not come up; see'in as how Doc would have a 10-20 page explanation on each concept. He would have the horse's entire past performance in the computer, to show that in the horses good races, bad races, and good within bad races, there is a consistant pattern in either internal fractions, rate of deceleration, etc. In other words, Doc would show that at least two lines or more picked could make the horse the winner. He did "exactly" that in The PaceLine manual; in the Stock 'n Trade horse, their was no usable line, but since Doc wrote and detailed the reason in 2-5 pages, no one accused Doc Sartin of "voodooing" a line or several lines to make the horse the winner.

1. How do you catagorize what the Hat told Richie? Meditation, Mental Time Travel, Out of Body, Native American religion, Vulcan mind trick,Spiritual Jedi-Priest , TeleKinesis, Altered Mind States.....I mean, be honest Richie, when the Hat sits you down to explain advanced concepts and practices, does he sit you down in front of him, takes off his Stetson, and with one or both hands and fingertips puts them on accupressure points on your face and skull, and tells you to "relax, my thoughts , your thoughts, my mind , your mind"........if Mr. Bradshaw starts handing out Light-Sabers with Indian Totems engraved in them, or Richie comes back and tell us while The Hat was meditating, you seen him Levitate 1/2 " off the floor in a sweat lodge, all I can say is.........."........" VoodooFan

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[Turbulator]

"We are going to bet the horse closest to the lead positionally factoring in pace of race" - The Hat

You lost me, Richie. I only got one of the examples right.

"factoring in pace of race." What exactly do you mean by this?

[Turbulator]

I think I've got it now.

[emilio840]

Hi Richie!!

Can you explain what you mean by factoring in pace of race."

Do you mean to look at all the horses last race and pick the fastest pace (if possible close to today's distant.) And than pick a horse that will run close to that pace. And don't look at the lengths that the horse is behine the leader.

I am confused. Do we look at the first 2 calls to find this horse that is close to the pace.

[RichieP]

Originally Posted by emilio840

Hi Richie!!

Can you explain what you mean by factoring in pace of race."

Do you mean to look at all the horses last race and pick the fastest pace (if possible close to today's distant.) And than pick a horse that will run close to that pace. And don't look at the lengths that the horse is behine the leader.

I am confused. Do we look at the first 2 calls to find this horse that is close to the pace.

Hi Emilio,

ok this part of what I wrote:

3) When you FIRST open a race scroll the horses and find the fastest PACE OF RACE from the LAST RACE. Look at the horse(s) and check the position and beaten lenghts at 1c AND 2c. If the horse maintains position and/or beaten lenghts (NOT talking about pos 8-8 for ex, some looking at races like this will show YOU what is ok) this is a TRIGGER to open the horse's WHOLE pp's up and evaluate him off BEST line (s).

You can make a personal SPOT PLAY from this type horse WHEN he FITS the race shape you are projecting to win today (early or other than early).
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has NOTHING to do with the 7 screenshots shown amigo.

The "fastest pace from last race" is something Jim taught me to do in EVERY race I open up to work. This is kind of a primer to start seeing things about the race that might reveal a horse who is extremely dangerous from what he shows in his LAST RACE.

1) Battling for the lead from 1c-2c
2) making a QUICK positional move from 1c-2c
etc etc.

Note that the last thing written about this is the "possibility to make a personal SPOT PLAY from this type of horse WHEN it fits today's winning race shape early or other than early"

Emilio we do this FIRST when looking at a race. Then if the horse shows NOTHING against the pace we MOVE ON with the working of the race matching etc etc.

If he DOES show positive signs from the race we then have to see if he FITS the race shape thats gonna win today
a) Early - projecting a wire to wire win
b) Other than early - ALL other races

For example:
Our horse battled gamely from 1c-2c against the fastest pace from last race before collapsing. ok so we open his pp's up and grab his fastest line( Power line) to evaluate against the others today.

BUT in todays race there are 2 or 3 other PURE EARLY runners and our guy is the SAME. If he can NOT pass horses he is identified as EARLY style and with the other earlies in the race (assuming their 1st fractions are at least as fast as our guy) TODAY'S winner is gonna be Other than early. Our horse does NOT fit this shape ok?

That's why I described this "look" at the fastest pace from last race" as a good thing to create a SPOT PLAY type deal from. It's only gonna help us in SOME races BUT we have to do the mental work and look at EVERY race to find the ones where it WILL tell us something.
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All this has NOTHING to do with the screen shots shown. The screenshots are simply the horse's POWER LINES or lines that make then FAST. Thats what we match from and bet the horse closest to the lead positionally factoring in pace of race.

I hope this clear things up a bit

Richie

[RichieP]

Originally Posted by Turbulator

I think I've got it now.

GOOD.

Steve what I did when learning positioning from Jim was to keep looking over and over and over at the "pictures" of what it was ok?

That repetition helped a LOT. Jim is an extremely SHARP teacher and this is what he did with me so I pass it along here

Richie

[RichieP]

Let's go directly to the BIG question. WHOM are we going to bet in THIS race. No sense dancing around this. We will deal with the rest after.

"Rich the race is going to be run Early or other than early ok? Forget about nitpicking running styles with all this presser,early presser,sustained presser,late bullcrap. This is a much simpler way to look at a race and find the horse to bet. Keep an OPEN mind." - Jim Bradshaw
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Finding the horse to BET:

EARLY - a horse who we project to wire the TODAY'S field. When looking at the pp's for the race this can be a horse who has the lead at the first call or a horse who is 2nd-hd / 2nd-nk but figures to get the lead against TODAY'S field and wire them. **This can only be ONE horse**
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I am going to show a couple of screenshots now but first PLEASE go back and read again the previous post about matching the earlies at the FIRST call and eliminating those that can NOT get the lead they need to WIN immediately ok? Very important.

Here is a screenshot from just last night at Mnr. Here are the horse's Power lines. We see 2 early runners. The #4 and #8. Check the first calls on both and you should see the #4's life is over as the #8 DOMINATES him early.

That means in TODAY'S matchup the #4 is NOT early but is reduced to other than early with the presence of the #8.

He MUST be removed IMMEDIATLEY from consideration. NOW

first the screenshot of the field please

[RichieP]

we have removed the #4 and now re-evaluate the race.

The #8 now appears as Lone Early and has the added plus of TWO calls of "FIGHTING" (1c-2c) that should not happen today. This is extra units if energy available for him TODAY.

Also notice that NOW the next closest horse POSITIONALLY after the #8 is position FOUR ok? There are NO pos 2 or even 3's NOW.

We have a FAST dominant early horse with no positional challenges

LOOK at the picture please

[RichieP]

so TODAY'S race is gonna run EARLY with the #8 dominant. So we throw EVERYONE else the heck out NOW.

Yes that's the Hat in action man. Throws whole chunks of the field out IMMMEDAITELY.

Here is what is left to make WIN betting decisions from.

kind of EASY to figure out

THIS is how to figure out and work the EARLY race shapes.

The #8 is the winner of the race - $4.80