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Originally Posted by Sightseek
Its an interesting process watching someone look over a horse and the auction process in general. One particular pinhooker will have all of the horses in the barn quickly paraded in front of him until he sees something that fits the mold he has found success with. The consignors are familiar with the type of horse that a particular buyer typically buys and will seek that person out when they have a horse that fits.
Being in the area where the "hot horse" at the sale is always were the most entertainment comes from though.
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People should hang out at a high minimum dice table.
You will find people there -- some of them successful businessman -- others God only knows how they found their money ... and they will say some of the most irrational stuff.
They think certain shooters can control the dice. They think certain shooters are better than other shooters. They talk about stuff like "hot dice" and "cold dice"
They seem to be oblivious to the randomness of it all.
Obviously there is a little more skill involved when it comes to the selection of yearlings than simply throwing dice ... but not a whole lot more.
Every dice shooter likes to talk about their 'big rolls' when they made 20 straight points, buckshot about half of them, and had floods of people coming to the table just to watch them shoot. They don't like to talk about their lifetime ROI throwing dice or the crippling losing streaks when they couldn't make a single pass 20 times in a row despite having almost a 50/50 chance each time.
09-11-2012, 08:22 AM
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