By Ray Wallin As handicappers, we strive to be wrong less often than we are right. Yet in defeat we can find a positive. Thinking back to the days of my misspent youth on the apron of the Monmouth Par...
By Ray Wallin Winning horseplayers execute with both intention and action. Losing horseplayers don’t. Think back to your days of sitting in Mr. Burke’s math class. I am sure you remember the kid t...
By Ray Wallin There have been books written about it. There have been endless debates on handicapping and horse racing forums about it. I’ve even seen guys come to blows in the old Bally’s Wild We...
By Ray Wallin The thoroughbred racing community lost one of its greatest and most distinctive voices with the recent passing of race-caller Marshall Cassidy at the age of 75. Cassidy wore many hats du...
By Ray Wallin I have highlighted some outrageous horseplayer behavior in the first four parts of this series: When Good Horseplayers Go Bad Part 1 When Good Horseplayers Go Bad Part 2 When Good Horsep...
Where Do You Fit In? 7 Types of Horseplayers By Ray Wallin What do school students and horseplayers have in common? No, this is not going to be a bad joke about what happens when a jockey, a horse, an...
By Ray Wallin Our brains are highly developed. The three main parts work together to make us the people that we are. They keep us alive, provide us with motor skills, and allow us to have judgment, in...
By Ray Wallin It takes a lot of courage to break out of your comfort zone. We enjoy the predictability of our routines. We fear failure, rejection, and judgment. We avoid risk. We are creatures of hab...
By Ray Wallin In life there is information that you should use and information that you should avoid using. When your doctor tells you that you should work out more and cut your salt intake for your h...
By Ray Wallin If you do a web search for “3 R’s” you get a lot of interesting results. For the environmental minded, there is “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle,” which helps to cut down on the was...