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Reality checks

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 31, 2009

Several readers wrote in to ask why the people trying to pick winners for the big races featured on national TV were having trouble hitting their backsides with a rolled up Racing Form. And the way reader-response seems to translate is that for every thoughtful and well-composed message that appears on the screen, 1.5 million more are probably thinking the same thing. The recent soup at Saratoga caused many expert handicapper picks to come up short and drippy. Here's why so many people are mis ...

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