WIN, PLACE and SHOW
The game cannot be beaten by buying newspapers or by sleuthing around for stable dope or listening to hustlers at the track. No racing sheet or daily newspaper selector in the country ever shows a profit on all his top horses over a period of a year; therefore anyone who plays selections of horses from among such selections is certain to wind up with a healthy loss. No scratch-sheet ever has shown or ever will show a profit from all its top horses in all races, so that one who picks around among them also is bound to wind up in red ink. Some stable information is worthy of respect, but mighty little of it. Nothing but grief can come from following the guidance of a hustler who has tipped each of the horses in a six-horse race in the certain knowledge that something is bound to win it and he can get a trifle from the player who happened to get the winner.
The sources from which a horse-ignorant public gets the names of animals on which to wager can be broken down into four main categories. These arc: (1) Touts or hustlers at the track; (2) tip-cards sold at the entrances to a track and at a few newsstands in a near-by city; (3) weekly turf sheets sold by subscription and at newsstands; and (4) scratch-sheets, standard racing sheets and daily newspapers offering the selections of handicappers employed by them. Each of these sources will be taken up briefly in the following sections of this chapter.
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The sources from which a horse-ignorant public gets the names of animals on which to wager can be broken down into four main categories. These arc: (1) Touts or hustlers at the track; (2) tip-cards sold at the entrances to a track and at a few newsstands in a near-by city; (3) weekly turf sheets sold by subscription and at newsstands; and (4) scratch-sheets, standard racing sheets and daily newspapers offering the selections of handicappers employed by them. Each of these sources will be taken up briefly in the following sections of this chapter.
WIN, PLACE and SHOW
The game cannot be beaten by buying newspapers or by sleuthing around for stable dope or listening to hustlers at the track. No racing sheet or daily newspaper selector in the country ever shows a profit on all his top horses over a period of a year; therefore anyone who plays selections of horses from among such selections is certain to wind up with a healthy loss. No scratch-sheet ever has shown or ever will show a profit from all its top horses in all races, so that one who picks around among them also is bound to wind up in red ink. Some stable information is worthy of respect, but mighty little of it. Nothing but grief can come from following the guidance of a hustler who has tipped each of the horses in a six-horse race in the certain knowledge that something is bound to win it and he can get a trifle from the player who happened to get the winner.
The sources from which a horse-ignorant public gets the names of animals on which to wager can be broken down into four main categories. These arc: (1) Touts or hustlers at the track; (2) tip-cards sold at the entrances to a track and at a few newsstands in a near-by city; (3) weekly turf sheets sold by subscription and at newsstands; and (4) scratch-sheets, standard racing sheets and daily newspapers offering the selections of handicappers employed by them. Each of these sources will be taken up briefly in the following sections of this chapter.
The sources from which a horse-ignorant public gets the names of animals on which to wager can be broken down into four main categories. These arc: (1) Touts or hustlers at the track; (2) tip-cards sold at the entrances to a track and at a few newsstands in a near-by city; (3) weekly turf sheets sold by subscription and at newsstands; and (4) scratch-sheets, standard racing sheets and daily newspapers offering the selections of handicappers employed by them. Each of these sources will be taken up briefly in the following sections of this chapter.
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| BN ID: | 2940015928891 |
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| Publisher: | Horse Shows |
| Publication date: | 10/30/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 180,409 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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