Good work.
It does dominate.

BTW... Tried to straighten out your columns a little with code tags.
Will have to get some vids & screenshots going for how to use those.

Basically, write it in a text editor that lets you use COURIER (a fixed-width font), then paste it in. Finally, wrap that in "code tags." (The 5th icon from the left that looks like <>)

This looks like good work, Steven! :clap: :clap:

It was work like this that allowed me to turn everything right side up a couple of months ago.

Much of that development was the result of working with a couple of other guys. I just cannot emphasize enough how important collaboration is.

Aside from splitting the workload, it also provides a different POV; different ideas.

Of course, Steven, our paths have crossed before. I know your work is top notch.

(Could use an extra 500 columns, maybe. LOL)
(Dang, was that my BIG DATA outlook showing through?)

I look forward to hearing about it.

Thank you.

Maybe some column heading descriptions?

If I can't post the data here, I set up a link to it. — Tom

Sure.
What format do you want to post it in?

Worksheet or PDF file?
Click the Upload file button.
(Let me know if it doesn't appear on your toolbar.)

Graphics?
Just drag & drop.

Your story is almost the same as mine!

I was studying what this guy told me and thought I was getting pretty good at it. (It was 1983 and I was not yet a winner player.)

So, one day I am at HOL. I came to play Star Gem in the 9th race. Frank Olivares is the jockey. Of course, I showed up for the 1st race - and bet all the way. I had planned on betting a my BIG bet - $20 on this horse.

It was a cheap claiming sprint - $12,500 claimer, as I recall.
I visit the horses as they're being saddled and as they walk out to the track Star Gem looks like he is dragging his right rear foot.

Seriously... I thought the horse looked like Igor limping around. I said to myself, "He'll have to be a vet scratch!"

I left my $20 in my pocket.
Sat down to watch.
Star Gem is 20/1. (Well, that proves it. Nobody likes the horse.)

Olivares pops the gate and is just gone down the backstretch. Nobody ever got close to him.

That was the last time I ever used physicality. LOL

This sounds like a lot of work. As such, if one is good at putting it together, I'd assume it could be quite lucrative.

Back in the '80s, I had a guy in SoCal teaching me body language. He seemed to be a winning player - but who really knew back then?

What I was really interested in was his "warm up system." Never knew how it worked but I was astounded at how often he'd peg a chalk as "didn't warm up well" and be right.

As for the body language... well, let me be kind to myself and say I WAS TERRIBLE at it!

We should have a phone call soon because I've made some interesting improvements in the OPP as I use it. BTW, it is the OPP with my mods that I credit with making me so difficult to beat.

Our dear friend, Dick Schmidt, deeded me a strategy he used very successfully with Forex. I melded that with the OPP to make it extremely powerful. If you have a positive expectancy, it actually raises your $Net! (As does both HMI & the Opp.)

Maybe I should call it OppEx. LOL

They have huge barns but mostly focus on the cream. — Gregory Byrnes

I recall someone who worked in [name redacted] barn talking like that about him when it came to 2-year olds. The actual quote was that [name redacted] had a "churn 'em & burn 'em" approach.

He went on to explain in more detail: Let's get the horse on the track and see if he/she is precocious. If the horse gets hurt - oh, well. Wasn't going to amount to anything we can use anyway.

Love to hear stories about "First time at the track."

Over the years I've always asked guys the same question after hearing their "First Successful Day Story:"
Do you find that your handicapping is biased towards your remembrance of what caused you to win on that day?"

In all the years of asking this question, only a handful have said that they didn't still expect the winners to come from similar handicapping. (i.e. early speed, top jockeys, long prices, whatever.)

How about you?

Makes sense.
Thank you.

Drag & drop of both graphics and PDFs SHOULD be working now.

I wouldn't know what to do with them.

How would you use them?

Thank you.
I, too, see the need for this community, but perhaps nobody else does.
You know, I tried this once before and couldn't get anyone to post. It could happen again.

It's nothing special that I do all I do is download past results charts from Equibase then using my own observations for tabbing what horses are what running styles along with 1c/2c beaten lengths plus my mini track bias notes I can complete this in under 1-2 hours tops for 4 days — Conley

1-2 hrs Per track?

I'll work on it.

This is excellent work.
Care to show a screenshot of how you do this work?
(Dang, I wonder if you can do that here.)

Everything we do is one track at a time.
I can do that one track at a time but cannot give you a sorted list without putting in maybe 4 hours of work.

I started to run a query on this question.
However, my software is designed to easily answer questions about THIS track as opposed to which track(s) are best at something.

Frankly, it is too much work to produce that answer.