The Rolling Stones have always been wiser than they look.
Their songs stand the test of time.
I got a question this morning via our messagging board about how to use the selections:
"Can you please tell me how the Picks arrange if in order or some other way you play them thank you sir"
Henry asked a popular question.
"Henry, most people want to validate their picks with ours, well, you can't always get what you want, you get what you need, and what you need is to see the horses you don't have in your own handicapping.
If you have the 1-2-3-4, and we have the 1-3-4-5, the 5 horse is what you need.
Validating your picks with ours is 'dead' from the start, I tend to gravitate to horses the public is not privy to.
Why?
We don't handicap like the public, we look at different factors, factors we call exclusive info because of the way we lay out our product and produce our own handicapping factors.
We don't handicap with Beyer figures, Rags, sheets, we use our own info from works, our own numbers, not the overused mainstream workout reports, every body else uses.
We simply don't make decisions on information everyone else knows.
Exclusive information is what makes prices.
If 'you standing in line with Mister Jimmy' and he likes the same horse you do, well, you can't always get what you want, but if you use exclusive info you get what you need, the outside the box of public domain thinking.
If you get away from thinking 1st, 2nd pick, 3rd pick etc, and think in the form of what is the value, you get what you need. Oh yeah!
Horseplayers can be like Mick Jagger with wild jesticulations and odd movements when they get a winner.
In the video below, is exactly what you see when a horseplayer does when he gets a winner, his or hers gestures are very much like Mick's, I knew a guy, with a glass of wine in his hands, running around the track screaming at the top of his lungs, he had $5 to win on a 20-1 shot.
We all know that Mister Jimmy, who loves them tips at the track, a man that look pretty ill and he will ask you, time to time, who you like after deciding to get a soda, and if he doesn't agree he will say one word to you, 'dead'.
At the track there is plenty of opinions, putting ego aside, and using the value laid out in front of you, you can find what you need.
Today:
Strong card at Saratoga, was looking forward to bet against Mentee, but scratched, as announced by the Grand Poobah, his owner on social media.
All the furor about by his nose track record performance at a distance of 5f, a distance only used 5 times in 20 years at Aqueduct, tells you all you need to know how broken our media is in this country and in racing as well.
Racing media kisses the ring, just like in real life, and completely lacks the ability of putting things into context.
Always looking at the whole truth gives you what you need.
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