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Tournament play not just for the wise guys

By Jeremy Plonk
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, July 1, 2004

Every horseplayer -- at least once in his or her jaded recreational life -- has been appalled by the stupidity of the person standing nearby who just hit a major payoff. The nature of the beast mandates that you feel superior to that person in knowledge, but simply short on lady luck. It's that kind of mentality that puts your name among the entrants in a handicapping tournament. So with $80,000 on the line recently, I decided it was time to put my years of racetrack savvy to the test for the f ...

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