Good Horses Don't Bounce

[Topcat]

Al Caught Up Wrote:
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> for what it\'s worth, Ernie Dahlman is famously a
> Sheets player who is a bounce atheist:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/magazine/the-wiz
> ard-of-odds.html


Told a boxfull of colleagues that if Skip Away (a horse I loved who proved out in a significant way -- but who was absolutely going to bounce to Saturn the first Saturday in May) won the Derby, I\'d quit betting.   Still here.

[TGJB]

Just for the record, that story is 15 years old. I don\'t know where Ernie stands now, how much he bets, how he bets, or how he does.

[Al Caught Up]

no, certainly. I didn\'t mean to imply otherwise (and I should have used the past tense in the post, though it might have sounded like he was departed...).

[ajkreider]

Some pure speculation:

Maybe \"good\" horses don\'t bounce, because they don\'t run big new tops.  This could be because they simply don\'t have the trainers can get that performance out of them (past an expected limit), or because they don\'t need to put in an all-out effort to win (Flintshire?).