FG 4

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by RealBigD

We all try to explain aberrant results in ways that make sense to us.

Which in this case, was the logical property that states:

1.) I can out-handicap any horseplayer in the United States

then

2.) I did not have the longshot winner

therefore

3.) Obviously, someone was cheating.

It was pure uncalled for folly in every sense of the word.

BigD. Like the others in this thread, I get a good feeling from you, so don't interpret this as an attack on you in any way.

I know you weren't here for Derby Trail's Best Thread Ever, so here it is if you'd like to check it out. The numbers against the claim of fixing a race are positively damning. Who risks their entire livelihood in order to cheat, just to get a horse to improve roughly a length and a half off their previous best race ever? It wasn't necessary. So naturally, you've got to cut many of us some slack for not being willing to just follow the lemming off the cliff in order to justify a longshot winning a race which in retrospect, he had every right to be a competitor in to begin with.