If Rags were selling 300 sets a day that would be $9,000 a day and about $2 million a year on one circuit. Hardoon would be out of business! Whatever Freehouse is smoking I want some.

It's always the same stuff. This year's crop of 3yo's is weak. (Currently successful trainer) is using drugs. TG and the Sheets are killing the prices.

It's a paradox that many people do well and learn this kind of handicapping quickly provided they know NOTHING ELSE or very little about handicapping before they start using it. TG handicapping and its principles may be intimidating to the novice, but if this is the first thing you learn, you're very lucky. Previous handicapping experience can actually work against you. Most people are carrying at least ten years worth of baggage (old ideas they had about pace, or whatever else they previously relied on) and it takes them years to get the subtleties of patterns, etc., and also to forget at least some of the old crap (and believe me, most of them NEVER really give up the old stuff, even if they tell you they did).

Is it a better environment for TG players now than it was 15 years ago? Probably not. However, based on my observation (people I know, seminars, etc.), less than 25% of people who buy this stuff really get it and you can take that to the bank. If you have any doubts, read this board and look at all the posts about jockeys, track bias, and whether or not ground loss really matters. It's a great game and there are still plenty of opportunities.

HP