Using The Horse Street Handicapper The Key to the Mint System I live in a gambling city abounding with casinos. There are a number of racebooks here. Some of the clubs are parimutuel and some are not. When you wager in a parimutuel club your money is co-mingled with the money wagered by all the […]
Is Advantage for Lone F’s (Front Runners) Really There?
Lone F’s: Do They Really Have an Advantage? Lone F’s, (front runners in a field without other front runners) have long been accorded a near-royal status. Is it justified? To answer this question, we begin by defining and benchmarking “F” horses in general. Our definition of an “F” horse is a horse with 7 or […]
The Reynolds Number, Modeling and Osborne Reynolds
Who Was Osborne Reynolds? What Was He Modeling? In my research I came across the work of Osborne Reynolds, a 19th century English physicist and engineer whose area of interest was “turbulence” (fluid mechanics). In 1883 Reynolds, by experimenting with pipes of varying sizes, was able to come up with a number, (now known as […]