Unique Individual

Every Individual who walks on this earth is unique and this is what makes human society interesting.

Even clones raised side by side will end up with quite different perceptions and personalities.

We each have different perspectives, interests, capacities and capabilities.

People tend to have every circumstances to their benefits and having an extremely high opinion of themselves and driving need to be center of attention and limelight.

Noel Callow's Malaysian problem

Practical Punting Daily

Herbal tablet to blame for Noel Callow's Malaysian problem?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Posted @ 7:54 am
The inside story on Noel Callow's problem sample in Malaysia is that a herbal tablet he's been taking for 5 years and which passed drug tests all over the world may be at the heart of the matter. In the topsy-turvy world of Malaysian racing, some people think NC has been the victim of a setup. He apparently won on his first ride there, by 4.5 lengths, and the stable didn't have the money on. Not happy chappies. The popular Aussie jockey fears he may cop a ban of 3 to 6 months.

(Over)use of the whip in the closing stages - by Tony Paley

by Tony Paley

Phew - now that was a horserace as crack Hong Kong sprinter Sacred Kingdom bounces back to form and defies the previously unbeaten red-hot favourite Rocket Man in a ding-dong battle up the straight for the International Sprint title at Kranji in Singapore.

Brett Prebble on Sacred Kingdom would surely have been straight into the stewards' room if he had ridden a horse like that in Britain such was his (over)use of the whip in the closing stages.

Decision Making

From the selections of two horses, it is very tough for humans to execute their decisions, let alone selecting three or four horses in a race. For a choice of two animals, it is a matter of making the right call.

Picking A Winner

Picking a winner is 40 percent skill, 41 percent luck and 19 percent on the eeriness, the unforseen and the hidden agenda.

Choice and Decision Making

Most of life are choices and decision making and the rest is pure dumb luck and no matter how good we are there is a lot of luck involved.

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It is a combination of good luck (a lot of it) combined with the fact of hard work on analysis, observation, looking out for clues to get the winners