The Giant (Imran Chisty up) being led in by trainer Faisal Abbas and owners [pic: rwitc archives]Apparently, despite a detailed discussion about the FINOO (Follow-In-Next-Outing-Only) horses, there are some who still find the concept confusing, especially because of the qualifier rules. They will fiind the explanation here.
While I must mention here that the rules (which I want written in stone to reduce the decision making stress) are being re-looked into by CP and Curious No End (both of whom made some valuable suggestions here as well as privately in mails), and since they seem to be far better than I am in applying the rules of logic, I have agreed to seriously consider their recommendations.
However, they need a day of two to look at the old data (and see how well the results would have panned out under the new rules), until then I am going to use my stone tablets and stick to the inscpription on them as sacrosanct. (By the way, talking of stone tablets reminds me of a beautiful book, The Richest Man In Babylon, which drastically changed my perspective about money--alas too late!--and which I strongly recommend to everyone who wishes to invest, speculate or gamble, and mind you, it is a MUST READ for our young kids BEFORE they earn their first penny in life.)
Alas (I know some will say "thankfully"), there is only ONE horse on the Friday card that finds its name on the FINOO list.
The Giant (2-4)
a) Running at the same level (class V)
b) running over 200m longer trip (1800 from 1600m)
c) has the same jockey (Imran Chisty)
Satisfies ALL 3 conditions.
A WIN bet.
P.S.: Curious No End has made a special request to publicly mention if any horses on the day's card have either been struck off the FINOO list last time (like Marine Zone who went on to win after being struck off) or have just missed making the list (like Forest Native), and therefore, are not under consideration by me. He feels some people may want to keep track of such horses. To honour his request, here I put them:
Struck off from the list after last run:
Western Challenge (1-1) &
White Heart Lane (2-2)
And just missed making the FINOO list:
Dancing Glory (4-5)
Good luck.
