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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Oh boy!

Yes " I can pick out any race I want at any track in America and say, because Horse X is the second choice in a race, that this horse has the second best chance to win said race " this is not only true according to my " logic " but it is true statistically and would be proven just that over time. In fact, believe it or not, this is the entire point. This is a mathematical concept and NOT a handicapping one and I have NEVER claimed it was anything else. YOU may be insinuating I have but I think if you really reread the chain of events in this thread, you will see that is not the case.

I understand full well that there will be many races where you or I will NOT think the second choice is the second likeliest winner ( and believe it or not, in a true mathematical universe, we will also probably be right in this assumption on occasion ). That, however, is not, nor was it ever, the point I was making.

Honestly, I think you, Byk and I could probably hash this out over a drink sometime this summer. Byk can bring along his abacus in a desperate attempt to keep up.

LOL. Sounds good, Mr. S. No hard feelings.