To Janis Joplin

[richiebee]

D-REX:
 
   Are you saying that CH is not master of his domain?



Post Edited (04-06-05 08:55)

[TGJB]

Just to be clear-- I don\'t a problem with CH having theories. Lots of people in this game and on this board have lots of theories. The problem I do have can can best be illustrated with a scene from one of the great documentaries of our time.

I\'m speaking, of course, of Spinal Tap.

Nigel Tufnel: \"We play louder than anyone else. Our speakers go to eleven, not ten like the speakers for other bands\".

Rob Reiner: \"Uhhh... how can that make a difference? Don\'t they only go so loud, no matter whether you call it ten or eleven\"?

Nigel: (long pause while he thinks)-- \"Our speakers go to eleven\".



My problem is the way CH has \"argued\" his case. He has absolutely, steadfastly refused to respond to any points made to him and any evidence presented, simply repeating his mantras over and over again. And, of course, he has presented himself as a pace martyr when I blew my stack at that behavior.

George, stop trying to \"wind me up\", as you and your countrymen would say. You know it\'s not a first amendment question and you know I\'m not going to ban you (probably), and some, like CH, don\'t get your deadpan wit. You are reinforcing his martyrdom.

[mandown]

Hi Tony,

I was working for Robert Maxwell in the UK when the owners/originators of FigsForm tried to get Maxwell to invest in the operation. Maxwell, as was his wont, played hardball and we ended up going though the courst before acquiring their assets (principally the database and its associated software).

I was not involved in any of the Figs development but thought they had some good ideas. Robert Sinn, who has been mentioned here before, was the main originator of the various figures/stats and graphs that were in Figs.

He was a very clever man but an archetypal \'mad genius\' who didn\'t temper his genius with common sense. I think a lot of the stuff in FigsForm was just too hard for the average horseplayer to grasp.

We found when we launched the Racing Times that the hardest thing was getting people to spend more than a couple of minutes getting used to a slightly different layout, not to mention having times in 100ths rather than fifths.

You might think horseplayers are always looking for the added edge but for the most part they just want to handicap races and dealing with something new just gets in the way of that.

Cheers,

George

[P.Eckhart]

Mandown\'s a strangely familiar nom de plume, sounds like the Lambourn correspondant of the Sporting Chronicle.

[mandown]

Mandown is the name of one of Lambourn\'s workgrounds. I used to Live a couple of miles outside Lambourn.

George

[P.Eckhart]

Yep, I knew where and what Mandown was, that\'s why I mentioned Lambourn. It was more the age old tradition of racing journalists\' taking up pen names to write under like Martingale, Kettledrum etc I was angling at. Mandown was ringing a strong bell with me and I couldn\'t recall from where or when. I thought you might know, but clearly your association with this particular proper noun was personal not journalistic. My mistake.


mandown wrote:

> Mandown is the name of one of Lambourn\'s workgrounds. I used to
> Live a couple of miles outside Lambourn.
>
> George