I sometimes use them when a horse needs a 10 pt jump in one of the categories they are most useful for, namely 2nd lifetime start. There seem to me to be an awful lot of good, underbet trainers who are exponentially better 2nd time out at very playable odds. I also rely on them for 1st & 2nd time lasix, as well as when a horse is running back on 10 or less days rest, as the stats show that some trainers excel in these categories. Otherwise, I pretty much focus on the categories which apply to the particular horse & race, & those percentages influence the percentage chance I assign to the horse running a particular number.

Very sorry to report that OPM suffered an untimely death in the family & couldn't make it to GG last Sat. My sincere condolences, OPM, in this difficult time.

Sans OPM, I had to rely on a taxi driver to try to find the pic n pac close to the track, which seemed to both of us to be located between an expressway & the water. We didn't find it, but we did run into the very large Berkley contingent from the 200k anti-war protesters, none of whom was willing to also take up the cause I suggested, namely a reduction in confiscatory takeout rates. For some reason, they seemed to think that the issue was not that important given everything else that is going on in the world right now.