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Gravitee
Nov 20, 2003

I just put money in the Magic Fingers!

Pikestaff posted:

Lots of good stuff

Only other thing I'd add is the distance... Has the horse ran this particular distance before and how did they do?

I believe there are computer models that calculate all of this but there are so many factors that go into picking a winner that it's not come down to a science, yet anyway.

I grew up in Louisville where Churchill Downs/the Kentucky Derby is so I've watched horse racing all my life. I went to the Derby this year and ended up even on the day, so I won some, lost some. The track was really wet this year so I looked for "mudders" who have done well in wet conditions previously. Sometimes I just liked the name/owner/sob story* and went with that.

*There's always a human/horse interest story at the Derby. Like this year there was Patch, a one-eyed horse. How can you not like that?

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