After the NYRA announced plans to set up trailers on the track, Dick Sanzen to called me so we would work together to put a stop to it. We found was that the NYRA has a 2.8 million dolloar project involving altering numerous building on the National Register of Historic Places. They are doing this without proper review by any regulating authority as far as we can tell.
The Friends to Preserve Saratoga Racecouse has the following goals.
In order to help (or force) NYRA to do their job I have created three web pages on this site. I set upt the Friends Page where you can join or send me e-mail. I am gathering NYRA history documenting NYRA's previous lapses. Finally, I am keeping copies of the messages that I send out documenting our activities. (Both of these sections the messages I send out and NYRA's history need a ton of work -which will be done in the fall of 2000 at the earliest.)
I have some recent pictures of the construction taken on March 18, two days before the hearing by the Racing & Wagering Board to see if they have approval. If you want to download them, just go to my images directory. I haven't had a chance to really do much web design work with them.
I am trying to get organized. While I have a lot of stuff to add here are some pictures from April 29, 2000 to give you and idea of how it is going. Courtesy of an avid collector I have postcard pictures that show a lot of the changes.
I feel a need to concentrate on betting, (at least one friend has suggested my NYRA One account needs a work out,) so as of the end of May 2000, I'm taking a bit of a vacation from this. If you want you can check out a small sampling of the NYRA's presentation to the OPRHP. And since I'll never get organized I'm just putting up a lot of pictures from the last two months. (I'll continue to add to this until my ISP tells me I'm over my limit.) And of course the "improved Saratoga Racecourse" will be visible to all in two months anyhow.
These pages began as part of a programming project I did to earn a Master of Science degree in computer science from Union College. In spite of what I did there it is a fine school. My masters being done, I simply ruminate on various aspects which may be of interest to other horseplayers.(And regret my lack of knowledge in Game Theory, Decision Theory, Operations Research, and Bayesian Statistics - if someone had told me how handy it was to know this stuff or horse playing I might have signed up for a few classes)
I'm attempting to write a expert horse-race betting system. Every few years the Internet changes and more resources become available and I start over again. It is a work in progress, but comments are welcome at any time, though I rarely reply. At the moment I'm starting over from a more liesurely and theoretical bent.
| When I originally started doing web pages, I minimized using graphics thinking people would prefer substance to glitz. Boy, was I wrong. So, while I will continue to emphasis content myself - I will throw in other elements from time to time. I should point out, that I'm even more unkempt in person. Also much granier. |
The Kelly Criterion remains of interest. I put the Kelly page back up from previous version of my web pages. It is in need of revision but someone asked how to do the math on the Derby List so I copied it back in. Be warned that you should spot typos within seconds, the pointers are dead, and I'm not sure if the math is free of errors. With AT&T's kind permission I have reproduced the original paper which is available for download in postscript, http://ftp.netheaven.com/josh/kelly.ps, or as a pdf files for those who prefer. The LaTeX I used to mimic the original paper is also available.ftp://ftp.netheaven.com/josh/kelly.tex are on my ftp site.
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josh@racing.saratoga.ny.us last updated 15 February 1998