...for anyone who resisted it."

"...the tendency of everyone...to generalize wildly from his own experience...the tendency to be overly influenced by most recent performance...the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen...the human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what is saw, and every trick played was a financial opportunity for someone who saw through the illusion to the reality..."

No, these are not quotes from a book about horse racing or handicapping - but they could be. They actually come from the book "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis. But don't be fooled, the very same novel principles applied to successfully managing a professional baseball team could just as easily be applied to managing a racing stable or even to handicapping races.

I highly recommend the book. It is both insightful and entertaining.

Chris