Richiebee,

You are absolutely right on point 2, and I have a story that might better illustrate the point I'm trying to make.

Years ago I did a few seminars for TG with another guy and his wife. The gentleman in question and I were both horse racing fans and brought a lot of "extraneous" stuff to bear on our handicapping, but in my observation (and I watched him play), he was more likely to let the "extraneous" stuff talk him out of good TG plays than I was. All this trainer and jockey stuff and he would boot quite a few good straight TG plays. Not that he wasn't a good handicapper, but he brought in the extra stuff and I don't think it helped.

His wife on the other hand knew nothing about horse racing before using TG, used TG EXCLUSIVELY, and got some incredible results. I saw her hit two triples at Penn National the night before we did the seminar in Atlantic City for the Thunder Gulch Derby.

In my experience, this is not a unique phenomenon. The LESS people know about other forms of handicapping, the BETTER they do with TG. TG users who are "old horse racing fans" are generally locked in some "battle of faith" with other forms of handicapping they have used before. You see it on this board all the time.

My wife knows nothing about horse racing and on big days, as I have detailed on this board, she regularly embarasses me, the resident expert, by flipping through the sheets in ten seconds and landing on say...War Emblem. No pace, no class, no nothing.

The IDEAL user of this data would know NOTHING about horse racing and TG would be the FIRST handicapping product they ever saw. The rest of us are fighting the "battle of faith" with our old crap.

HP