Imagine this, a trip handicapper symposium consisting of:
1) CSC
2) Bobby Fischer
3) Eric Donovan
and
4) Classhandicapper (over at PA)
#1, hit a very fortuitous $25.80 winner in BEL and has been doing his best Stevie Belmont impersonation since. Give it a rest, BRO. At least act like you hit a double digit horse every so often.
#2, is busy developing his own trip handicapping style, which consists of noting what the jock is doing at a given point in the race, with no regard to how the horse actually runs
#3, is the founding father of the Horse Psychology Trip Handicapping Method, making it a point to note every little thing that happens to a horse in a race and whether or not the horse was COMFORTABLE during the running. This style of tripping requires that every sentence consists of countless reference to 'inside", 'behind', 'steadied', 'checked', 'didn't want to be there', etc. I'll never forget the look on Crist's face on the DRF show the 1st time that Donovan started with this BS. It was PRICELESS.
#4, has spent the past 3 years trying to fine tune his defense of the position that Bernardini was NOT moved prematurely by Castellano in the BC and that Invasor was best. Most recently, he spent the good part of an evening trying to convince me that Al Khali got the worst of it tripwise against Courageous Cat in the race at BEL. After CC bent AK over when they met again at SAR, he was still at it, trying to get me to see the error of my ways.
A nice helping of STFD and STFU would be in order for the 4 gentlemen. Yet, they must be heard.
P.S. 3 of the 4 are sucking my iggy and the 4the gets muted before being allowed to commence. Just so much nonsense even the most devoted handicapper needs to be subjected to in a given day.