Before you can progress from betting proficiency to betting artistry, you first need to learn about the fundamentals of handicapping. There are a lot of terms and situations you will encounter in your career as a professional gambler, but the ability to incorporate these fundamentals spells success or failure for your horse racing system.
The Basics Explained
There are basically just four fundamentals to consider in a horse racing system where handicappers are concerned: speed, pace, class, and form.
Speed is the most important and most desired characteristic in a racehorse, for obvious reasons. This can be determined through speed figures that assist handicappers in comparing vital information like actual times, different distances, race days, and racetracks and against various paces.
By removing non-contenders, the Beyer Speed Figures, which illustrates the horse’s speed in its past races, is a standard tool in speed handicapping. Just eliminate from your list of possibilities the horses that will not make it through the wire. You can also analyze the pre-race workouts of the horse to ascertain class and fitness, and in turn speed.
Together with speed, pace can make or break a horse. You can pace handicap a race by classifying the horses’ running style, whether frontrunner, stalker, presser, or closer, and then choosing the horse that best suits the race’s forecasted pace. You just have to contend with the variability of the human factor since the jockey determines the pace of the horse. Incorporate jockey style into your horse racing system to partially offset it.
Class does not refer to elegance, though it will not hurt the horse’s magnificence if it has loads of it. Class simply refers to the levels of competition a horse is entered in by its trainer. Determine if the horse can hold its end in a lower or higher class than its previous race.
Form refers to the fitness of the horse. Look for strong finishes (read: “in the money”) during the horse’s most recent races. Scrutinize the dates of races and distance ran to determine if the horse is in top condition; remember that the longer the layoff, the harder the comeback. However, account for the trainer factor in your horse racing system where relatively long layoffs are seen.
Other Handicapping Factors
In addition to these basic factors in handicapping, your horse racing system to be effective must also take into account secondary factors. These include the human factors of jockey ability and trainer performance.
Jockeys must intimately know their horses as they must ride as one. The jockey decides the pace of the horse, which makes knowing the abilities and riding style of the jockey important to a handicapper. This truth goes true for trainers as well. Try to get to know the trainer, even on a professional basis only.
Non-human factors of equal importance include ground and weather conditions, post positions, and other factors that not even the most experienced of handicappers could anticipate. But therein lies the beauty of gambling – exciting uncertainty.
The combination of all these handicapping factors can be intimidating to a novice. Just remember that you have to find the horse racing system that fits you best in terms of your needs, risk tolerance and abilities at present.
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As I always say, there's a village missing it's idiot somewhere and they can usually find them trolling on here. They think that if they repeatedly ask the same question and rave their PETA misinformation, that someone might actually end up agreeing with them. Let's hope not!
Most owners actually don't make money racing.
Only about 70% of all Thoroughbreds ever get to the races, and only about 55% of all Thoroughbreds ever win a race. It costs about $25,000, give or take a few thousand, to keep a horse in training for a year; more for the major racing centers like New York or Southern California, less for tracks away from the major population centers. roughly 10-15% of all Thoroughbreds earn enough money during the course of a year to cover their training expenses.
Some owners can recover the residual value of their horse at the end of its racing career by selling, but most racehorses– particular male racehorses– have residual value that is low or even zero at the end of their racing careers.
Basically, most people who are in racing are in it for the excitement, the fun, the competition; and the hope that maybe they'll be the one to strike it rich with a horse like Mine That Bird– or one of his relatives. It's the hope of getting that one special horse, plus the love of racing in general, that keeps people going.
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You need to go to a reputable trainer and tell him you're interested in buying a horse. Tell him how much you've got to spend and he'll do the rest. He might have a horse in his yard that's already for sale or he might go out and buy one for you.
Don't go buying horses over the internet!
The flat trainer Richard Hannon has had some good successes with cheaply bought horses in the past. He trains in Wiltshire.
http://richardhannonracing.tv/
Don't forget you'll have to contribute towards the horse's training expenses every week so the more people involved the cheaper it will be.
i don't like the gambling, the horse race is alright, mainly only good in the Kentucky Derby when you are really rooting for a horse to get the triple crown
Hi,
A jockey has a very dangerous job, but a very important one. He must guide the horse in the correct way as to know how his horse runs, and performs during a race. It is his responsibility to get his horse in the correct position, and know how to guide him through traffic going at very high speeds while the rest of the field is fighting to do the same. Jockey error has played a huge roll in injuries to other jockey's and horses. The horse does the running, but it is up to the jockey to know how fast the horse runs, and when to ask the horse for his best without compromising. So the roll of a jockey is very important. Without a jockey it would be like racing a car with no driver. Hope this explains it to you.
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You can go to the site for the Daily Racing Form at it should answer your questions also at any track the program will have instructions inside the cover explaining how to read the form and also how to make all wagers including the exotics.
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You have to sign up, but it's completely free. There's no fees for watching or betting. And they have like 60 tracks you can watch. It's a great service.
Several tracks have their own broadcasts on their website, but xpressbet is great because you can get all the tracks in one place and place a bet if you'd like.
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I think this gives a good explanation of the definition of the various track conditions:
http://www.ultimatecapper.com/track-conditions.htm
That said, it's important to note that because there is no standard for track composition in terms of sand, silt, clay, loam, organic matter, and every track is different, each track plays differently. To cite one example, the track at Aqueduct has a high sand content because the dates run at Aqueduct are typically the wettest times of the year. So the track superintendent finds it beneficial to have a lot of sand in the track to assure fast drainage. The result is that when there has been a lot of rain, the main track at Aqueduct can be like a wet beach– it packs down and gets harder. You may get faster times on such a track than when the surface is rated "fast".
Churchill Downs historically has had a high clay content in the track surface, with the result that the track can be very cuppy at best of times ("cuppy" means that when a horse strides on it, the hoofprint forms a "cup" on the surface of the track; it has depth, and it holds its shape rather than immediately crumbling) and can be really sticky and tiring when it gets wet.
A lot depends, too, on how the track superintendent deals with rainfall. At Santa Anita and Hollywood Park in the pre-synthetic days, the superintendents had enough time in most cases to get out the heavy roller equipment and "seal" the track before rain came. Basically when they seal the track, they're rolling and compacting the surface so that instead of water penetrating and making the track muddy down deep, the water just runs off the surface and drains away. Of course, the problem with this is that even when they opened the track surface in preparation for the day's racing, there was some compaction and the track would tend to get harder. During some of our rare wet winters, the track superintendent would sometimes have to close the track to exercise in order to do deep harrowing and conditioning of the subsurface and base after the track had been repeatedly sealed.
With synthetic surfaces, I think everyone, including the people who manufacture and install them, is still on a learning curve of what has to be done to keep the track consistant and safe in all kinds of weather.
From a handicapping standpoint, the important thing to remember is that each track is unique, and that you have to become familiar with what the weather conditions do to the the individual track surface.
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