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...your small (only a dollar) donation Duck Soup. Hail, hail, Freedonia, land of the brave and free. Forget what anyone else says; this is quite simply the best film the Marx brothers ever made. Where their other films confined their revolutionary energies to Florida, the opera house, the racetrack, and so forth, Duck Soup gives the Marxist troika a world--or at least a nation--to win. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the President of Fredonia; his slogan, an eerie anticipation of Proposition 13, is "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania...
...believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959, and worked for almost anyone who would hire him. In 1976 Barrera developed Bold Forbes, a sprinter notoriously weak at long distances, into the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont. He was the leading trainer in both 1976 and 1977. Last year his horses earned $2.7 mil lion, and this year...
...like San Diego, into which the Navy and the Marines pour $700 million each year in payrolls alone and the government feeds $1 billion annually into the local aerospace industry and $100 million into ship-building. The leading citizens of San Diego include John Alessio, a former bookmaker turned racetrack operator and C. Arnholt Smith, a highlevel con man chosen "Mr. San Diego of the Century" by the local paper. Smith used the money from his bank, U.S. National, to run deals with organized crime in California, taking a healthy chunk out to support himself and his friends. Among...
Beyer concludes by delving into the psychological aspects of being a good handicapper, how to notice the onset of major losing streaks before you are hopelessly mired in them, and how to manage your money at the racetrack with "prime" and "non-prime" bets. All external factors are potentially negative if they disturb your concentration, Beyer states, and that includes drinking and relations with the opposite sex. A great horseplayer must at least be unwaveringly serious in dedication to the sport...
...book ends with a classic example of racetrack logic as Beyer provides the reader with a race to be handicapped. Using the infinite knowledge absorbed from the preceding pages, we are steered toward an animal named "Where Am I," whose credentials fit perfectly into Beyer's scheme of things...