Good Afternoon,
I have pressing corporate/LLC tax filings due this week so I’m going to take care of these before continuing posts about our betting program.
I will however continue to publish the Potential Bets All list that can be viewed at the link with the same name in the navigation bar. And for a special treat, at least I think it’s one, Mark Cramer gave me permission to share with you the chapter in his book Kinkier Handicapping called Ed Bain and Susan Sweeney. Published in 1996 after Cramer’s classic book Kinky Handicapping Mark once again captures the true essence of the relationship that Ed and I shared that includes the different ways we each derived our bets from Ed’s Layoff and Claim statistics.
This was an era of information in horse racing beyond PPs and speed that included Mike Helm’s Exploring Pedigree, Joe Takach’s fantastic video Beat the Beam about physicality and another video called the Trainer’s Edge and then my favorite publication of all, that wasn’t Ed’s Layoffs and Claims of course, was Lee Tomlinson’s Mudders and Turfers. Tomlinson whose real name was Art Kaufman and at the time of his publication Art worked on wall street and he did not want his cohorts to know of his horse racing interest so he published under the name of his best friend Lee Tomlinson. We had the pleasure of meeting and then becoming lifelong friends with Art (we also actually met his friend Tomlinson too) after the publication of Mark’s Kinkier Handicapping book because Tomlinson read about my trifecta hit at the Fair Grounds and he told me that I had the largest hit ever from his sire pedigree ratings which he said I maintained the lead all the way to the finish line which was the day when he sold his ratings to the DRF.
BTW whenever we were around Art and we would be talking about his stats we always called him Tomlinson instead of Art. It was a subconscious switch that happened in our racing brains. From this read you’ll also get a glimpse of how much pedigree impacts the outcome of any race.
Enjoy, You can view the chapter at the following link:
Ed Bain and Susan Sweeney
An added note of something that I would like to personally share. I consider myself Ed’s protégé and a successful one because Ed truly is the best statistical handicapper that decided to apply statistics to a sport that all of us love. And to know how I really came about who I am in this, if you haven’t already, or if you have and haven’t in a while, I would like to suggest reading Signers. It’s my story and why I bet as I do because of Ed and everything that he tracked statistically. What I’ve come to know from this genius, that was also my love is the base of all my betting decisions. There is a link to my book Signers in the navigation bar above. I’m re-reading this now as I speak 🙂 It’s always good to have a refresher even when it’s refreshing ones self in how you usually think.
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