Derby Trail Forums - Another piece on Johnson's A.C. blackjack score

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/07...blackjack-1-5/

Johnson began his career a long way from the high-stakes tables, growing up on a 20-acre horse farm outside Salem, Ore. He learned the racing business from the bottom up, he said, mucking out stalls and grooming animals before becoming a jockey at age 15. Since then, he said, he’s held just about every job a person can in horse-racing, working as a junior racing official in several Western states, then running Philadelphia Park, in Bensalem, where he still has a home.

In addition to owning a few horses, Johnson also runs a racing industry consulting company called Heritage Development and pursues his computer-assisted wagering business, which uses complex computer models based on animals’ past performances to seek out races where public opinion has misjudged the real odds. “He’s pretty much done it all,” said another friend, Billy Koch, a managing partner in Little Red Feather Racing in Los Angeles. “You’ve seen how all different compartments of a business work and information is king, right?”