Bobajobber
Mare
Hi all,
I thought I would start up the VDW blog again and pray that it does not get railroaded again.
In all honesty, I needed a little time away from the forum life, to redress the balance in one's life, it is so easy to get caught up with all the nitty-gritty of the virtual world and forget that there are more important things to worry about in real life, so for all the members I had lambasted in the past, my apologies.
Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join;
To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.
That does not mean that I will put up with any idiots, sorry, this is my thread, anybody is welcome by all means, but please take your boots off on entry, I will not have anyone walking shit through it.
I want to apologise to mtoto I may not of been very forthcoming and more reticent when he needed me to, but I honestly understand his frustrations in particular areas of the method, but can assure him there are answers, but they may not be what he wants to hear though. :-(
This blog will not be like the last one, spelling parts out , If ArkRoyal wants to open the old thread (if he hasn't already), that is fine, they are only pieces of the puzzle, it takes a lot more thinking about and I know the Erin number was wrong, hopefully we can have some debates without the pain.
Anyway on my journey, I noted that Little Owl's AR was wrong? (and his first race was won at Wetherby) even though VDW went to the trouble of telling us in 'Market Harborough Maestro Clears Up One Or Two Points' in The Golden Years Of Van Der Wheil
"Taking the first horse mentioned Little Owl, the ability rating was given as 36. Little Owl a seven year old, scored his first win over 2mile Hurdle at Wincanton during the 1977-8 season and up to date in question, had won a total of 12 races worth £14160 (typo). During the present season three victories had notched up £22367. To obtain the rating it is necessary to use the total number of wins and the total winning sum which in this, is 12 wins worth £44160.
This is what I get for AR, although only slightly different, hope this shows ok.
My findings were that VDW was definitely taking his AR from the Sporting Life, see the attached photo, which I scanned from my visit to Colindale Library, see the bottom line
As you can see these are the same as what is offered up in the The Golden Years, I found other AR's slightly wrong, not sure why, I thought the prize money could be wrong in the Raceform, but I have not fully checked that out, all I know is they are only slight differences, but when you are trying to unravel a puzzle, it can get a little confusing when trying to find an answer.
I thought I would start up the VDW blog again and pray that it does not get railroaded again.
In all honesty, I needed a little time away from the forum life, to redress the balance in one's life, it is so easy to get caught up with all the nitty-gritty of the virtual world and forget that there are more important things to worry about in real life, so for all the members I had lambasted in the past, my apologies.
Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Good-Nature and Good-Sense must ever join;
To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.
That does not mean that I will put up with any idiots, sorry, this is my thread, anybody is welcome by all means, but please take your boots off on entry, I will not have anyone walking shit through it.
I want to apologise to mtoto I may not of been very forthcoming and more reticent when he needed me to, but I honestly understand his frustrations in particular areas of the method, but can assure him there are answers, but they may not be what he wants to hear though. :-(
This blog will not be like the last one, spelling parts out , If ArkRoyal wants to open the old thread (if he hasn't already), that is fine, they are only pieces of the puzzle, it takes a lot more thinking about and I know the Erin number was wrong, hopefully we can have some debates without the pain.
Anyway on my journey, I noted that Little Owl's AR was wrong? (and his first race was won at Wetherby) even though VDW went to the trouble of telling us in 'Market Harborough Maestro Clears Up One Or Two Points' in The Golden Years Of Van Der Wheil
"Taking the first horse mentioned Little Owl, the ability rating was given as 36. Little Owl a seven year old, scored his first win over 2mile Hurdle at Wincanton during the 1977-8 season and up to date in question, had won a total of 12 races worth £14160 (typo). During the present season three victories had notched up £22367. To obtain the rating it is necessary to use the total number of wins and the total winning sum which in this, is 12 wins worth £44160.
This is what I get for AR, although only slightly different, hope this shows ok.
My findings were that VDW was definitely taking his AR from the Sporting Life, see the attached photo, which I scanned from my visit to Colindale Library, see the bottom line
As you can see these are the same as what is offered up in the The Golden Years, I found other AR's slightly wrong, not sure why, I thought the prize money could be wrong in the Raceform, but I have not fully checked that out, all I know is they are only slight differences, but when you are trying to unravel a puzzle, it can get a little confusing when trying to find an answer.