My wife and I just viewed a short (after "The Story of Seabiscuit," with
Shirley Temple--on Turner Classic Movies). Its title was "So You Want to
Play the Horses," part of 'Behind the Eight Ball' series.

Five minutes into the film the luckless hero finally hits on a
"mathematical" system for picking winning horses. He pulls his tools from
the overhead lamp: a sextant, dividers, and a slide rule! He then fortifies
his logic with a dubious celestial reasoning. He places his bet and ...

Perhaps someone here has the DVD series (aka "Joe McDoakes") and can
identify the SR. It's hard making it out on 525/60 television. It was a
rather thickish closed-body 10 inch SR with a linear scale squarely on the
bottom edge of the stator. Perhaps a Post 1446?


--David