| If you want a quick and easy way to handicap a race | | | | check the sire stats for turf in that race. You will |
| there is a way to do it with this simple horse racing | | | | often find horses whose sire had an 8% sire win rate |
| system. Let's fact it, reading the racing form and | | | | on turf beating other horses whose sire had an |
| handicapping the races can be a time consuming and | | | | impressive 16% rating. |
| boring job. You can put hours into comparing each | | | | So breeding won't help to solve the riddle. My advice |
| horse in a race and after you handicap the race for an | | | | is skip the race. Here is how you will find some quick |
| hour realize that you have gotten so confused that | | | | bets from the rest of the races that do have qualified |
| every horse in the race looks like the winner. | | | | winners... |
| The first thing you have to realize is that every race is | | | | First of all, look at the morning line odds. Find the top |
| not playable. Some races are mystery races | | | | four horses in the morning line. Seventy Five percent |
| because no horse in the race has ever demonstrated | | | | of all winners come from the top four horses in the |
| that it can do what is being asked of it. I am talking | | | | morning line. |
| about the fact that in some races you will find that not | | | | Next, circle the three horses in the race with the |
| a single horse in the race has won at the distance, | | | | highest speed figure in their last race. Once again, |
| surface, and class level that it is running at today. | | | | about 70-75% of winners come from that group. |
| Every horse is being asked to do what it hasn't done | | | | Finally, look for horses moving down in class because |
| before. | | | | horses win much more often when they are moving |
| How do you know how well a horse will handle a race | | | | down than when they are moving up. By now you |
| over a mile long when it has never raced more than | | | | probably have narrowed it down to just one or two |
| six furlongs? How do you know how a horse will | | | | horses. Take the one with the jockey with the |
| handle the turf when it has never raced on grass | | | | highest win average and you will have many winners. |
| before. The answer is that you don't know and if | | | | Will you make a huge profit with this little horse racing |
| you don't know that, how can you compare one horse | | | | system? Probably not, but you will find some nice |
| to another. If you think that breeding is the answer, | | | | winners and it is a fast way to scan a racing form and |
| guess again. Take a look at any turf race and then | | | | pick horses that have the percentages on their side. |