Racing Maxims And Methods Of Pittsburgh Phil

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(50 points)The textarea shown to the left is named ta in a form named f1.It contains the top 10,000 passwords in order of frequency of use - each followed by a comma (except the last one). Racing Maxims and Methods of 'Pittsburgh Phil' (George E. Smith): Condensed Wisdom of Twenty Years Experience on the Track from the Most Successful Speculator in the History of the American Turf from the Only Personal Interviews Ever Given by the Famous Horseman. Thoroughbred Horse Racing. Based in foundation upon the old Jockey Club method of weights and scales, developed into an algorithmset which assigns numerical ratings for the Primary, Secondary and Unknown Factors. Smith aka 'Pittsburgh Phil' circa 1890s.

QFrom Holly Young: I love your site and have found it most helpful in many instances. I was wondering if you could possibly find out the origin of the term shoe in, meaning someone will win for sure.

A This one is spelled wrongly so often that it’s likely it will eventually end up that way. The correct form is shoo-in, usually with a hyphen. It has been known in that spelling and with the meaning of a certain winner from the 1930s. It came from horse racing, where a shoo-in was the winner of a rigged race.

In turn that seems to have come from the verb shoo, meaning to drive a person or an animal in a given direction by making noises or gestures, which in turn comes from the noise people often make when they do it.

The shift to the horse racing sense seems to have occurred sometime in the early 1900s. C E Smith made it clear how it came about in his Racing Maxims and Methods of Pittsburgh Phil in 1908: “There were many times presumably that ‘Tod’ would win through such manipulations, being ‘shooed in’, as it were”.

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