Horse-players' Wisdom from the Times

[George Thompson]

There is a race-track adage for beaten handicappers -- "Why go to the funeral when you skipped the wedding?" -- that warns against jumping on the bandwagon when trying to divine something as unpredictable as a horse race.  (NY Times, May 7, 2004, p. D5, col. 6) [That is, you shouldn't bet Smarty Jones at poor odds in the Preakness if you didn't collect on the 4-1 in the Kentucky Derby.]

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.