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A self-styled cool hunter, she goes by the handle niki_wujie and is from Zhengzhou in central China.

Baker picked up a 1-2 finish with Cool Hunter and The Public Halo in Race 5, a $5,000 claiming race, and Specht campaigned the top two finishers in Race 7, an allowance event won by Miss Super Saint.

There is also a dash of Cayce Pollard, the brand-averse cool hunter of Mr. Gibson’s novel “Pattern Recognition,” a paragon of understatement in boys’ Fruit of the Loom T-shirts, black 501 jeans, her clothes scraped free of logos, her hair, as Mr. Gibson described it, “poking up like a toilet brush.”

But neither did it turn me into a cool hunter, worried about missing something, or a technologist, juggling devices and platforms the minute I got home.

Bill Tikos is another independent digital cool hunter.