Happy Holidays and a great New Year to all.

I had a nice year at the windows, thanks mainly to TG. I have a pretty busy schedule but I managed to reserve one two-hour slot for playing late every Thursday PM. The Create-A-Card product enabled me to check out a few races at three or four different tracks during this designated time period and concentrate on the best ones. For whatever reason, I did very well in Chicago, and the Arlington to Hawthorne changeover didn't hurt at all. With Chicago as the main course, I supplemented with Kentucky, and I had some nice scores at Louisiana Downs (!) as well, and I tried other tracks with varying results.

I kept close track of my bets and results for a few months. I made a "sheet" for each race I played and eventually I was able to review about 150 races that I played to see what worked and what didn't. While this didn't have too much of an impact on my handicapping, it had a tremendously positive effect on my betting (type/amount/etc.) and I would highly recommend this to any recreational handicappers looking to improve their game.

With only a week left it's safe to say that this will be my most profitable year in quite some time. As far as handicapping products go, I have tried quite a few different things, but right now I'm down to just using TG (no Racing Form).

The Create-A-Card is a great product, and it was great to see TG push ahead into new areas and new types of data. Happy Holidays and thanks to TGJB, TGAB and the rest of the staff... HP