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General Handicapping Tips
Here are some strategies that will be helpful to the newcomer when
wagering on the races odds:
Put your money on the favorite. The favorite is the horse with the best
odds. It is the horse on
which the most money has been wagered. Favorites win about 33% of the
time.
Look for the Daily Racing Form and the handicapper's selections.
The newcomer can benefit a great deal from the observations and advice
of a recognized expert.
Check the program for a list of trainer and jockey standings that
include the number of wins
to date. The highest ranked riders generally ride the best horses, and
the best trainers usually
have a high win percentage.
You want to make sure that the horse you like has had experience! You
don't want to really
consider any horse that has not been money in graded stakes races.
It is of critical importance to matchup those running styles in every
race to see which
horse or horses have the right running style to succeed that day!
Horses Diet
A Preakness handicapping diet should include monitoring workouts
(preferably at Pimlico)
and when the horses actually arrive at the Preakness barn. It's all
about acclimation for
the horses. Rarely do unsettled horses win races. They, like their human
counterparts,
crave stability. Nothing says stability like having the Preakness barn
all to yourself
before the shooters arrive.
Determine if a race is playable or if you should "pass."
There are certain "signposts" and "signals" that are posted
conspicuously in every race that tell
us when to play and when to pass.
Determine if there is enough value in any race to warrant a play.
Understand the relationship among morning line odds, projected odds and
post time
odds and you will understand how to instantly spot a value play, which
is the only
situation you should risk your money on.
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Triple Crown Horse Gambling
Tips
There are a lot of ways people handicap the
horses and yet few can say they are in the
black at the end of any period of time, say 3 months, 6 months or a year.
Why? Well first
of all, most races are complex puzzles that need individual solutions. What
works for one
race may not work real well for the next.
Find lots of tips and suggestions offered about handicapping, many of which
will open your
eyes to the reality that there are situations that exist that provide
high-percentage success rates.
Tip #1. - Identify the Pace Matchup for each and every field.
One of the most important and yet least understood and utilized techniques
in handicapping is
identifying the running style for each horse in the field. Every horse in
every race has one of 4
distinct running styles.
Tip #2. - Understand which running styles are best suited for which
kinds of races.
Sprint races without a doubt favor early speed. Most winners of sprint races
are within 2 to 3
lengths of the lead at one or both of the first two call points. Therefore,
stone-cold closers
desperately need enough early speed in the race to create the right pace for
them to successfully
make their late charge. And of course, if you have a matchup in which there
is a lone early speed
horse, even if it has not held up lately that horse has a better than even
chance to go all the way
on top, often at a good price.
Tip #3. - To make money at this game, you need to know when to pass.
The primary reason why people lose money at this game is that they play too
many races. In order
to succeed, you have to be ultra-selective and play the waiting game. You
must wait out the right
matchups that will give you the best chances of making money. As surely as
the sun will rise each day,
there will be prime opportunities that will come along just as regularly.
Tip #4. - To make money at this game, you need to know how to wager.
As simple as it sounds, this is a major stumbling block for most players.
They simply don't know how
to construct the best wagers for the situation at hand. You should know when
to make win wagers and
when and how to make the right exotic wagers.
Tip #5. - You need an approach to handicapping that is consistent and
proven to work.
The only way you are going to succeed at this game is to have an
understanging of "what makes
horses win races" and an exact handicapping process that produces results
that you can duplicate
each and every time you find a race that appears playable. You can add to
these requirements self-control,
which is necessary when you need to pass a race when the matchup does not
present enough value to justify
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