Off to the Races
Atlantic, The, April, 2007 by Wayne Curtis
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It was nearly post time for the fifth race of the day at the Saratoga Race Course, and I was leaning on the rails along the paddock, refining a betting system I’d recently devised. I can’t reveal much about it, other than to say it involved a close read of the jockeys and was strongly influenced by Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink .
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And at Saratoga, you can get close. The paddock is set amid elms, maples, and vendors of sugary confections. Anyone who can afford the $3 admission can spend the better part of a day lounging in this area, called “the backyard,” and many do. Hundreds of people around me were enfolded in origami-like nylon chairs they’d extracted from quivers and set up next to Lego-colored coolers. The jockeys and their horses filed past, mere feet away, and some of the riders exchanged pleasantries with the crowd. I was ...
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