[AusRace] " A Punting Journey (2a) "

[Duff]

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From: "vino vino" <vino_k8 at hotmail.com>

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> a fav poem of mine, but theres always a few lines i dont necessarily
suggest is a wise thing to do....certainly not for those of us playing the
punting game!!!
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> ""If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it all on one turn
of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never
breath a word about your loss; ""

MFD......Steele.......If it was good enough for the powers that be at
Wimbledon to be selective ...then it's OK for me :-)

Kipling is a joy to read with licence but is not to be taken literally at
all times ......especially when he tends to wax lyrical about his
Supi-Yaw-Lat in "Mandalay" when he states ::


"By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say;
"Come you back, you British Soldier; come you back to Mandalay!"  "

Regards ,

Duff



Michael O'Shaunessy Duffy
Cygnet Racing Foundation
Cygnet Thoroughbred Management
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> duff:
> very very good days , such as Saturday , & very bad days ........two>
lines from Kipling's poem " IF " come to mind .......I find them to be most>
relevant to a struggling punter & let's face it , even for a " good &>
successful punter" , it's a constant struggle .> > " If you can meet with
Triumph and Disaster> And treat those two impostors just the same; "> > > I
think it's a very common flaw for punters to forget sometimes that Triumph>
& Disaster can both be imposters ......we can make the mistake in times of>
Triumph of thinking that this is long term reality.......that " my luck has>
turned the corner ".........that "I'm on a roll " ....that "I should strike>
while the iron's hot " ...........in the cold hard light of day , we know>
this is garbage .........that on the next trip to the track , we start the>
day with no more mathematical or esoteric advantage than we did today .> >
The main danger to over-reacting to days of Disaster of course is that they>
can sap our !
>  confidence if we allow them to ..........they can tempt us by> allowing a
dangerous new factor to creep into our selection process> ..........the "get
even " or " catch up " factor ........both common flaws> and both seriously
dangerous .> > These two lines from Kipling are carved in stone above the
archway entrance> to the Centre Court area at Wimbeldon .> >
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