| Most people who are involved in horseracing | | | | make sure that when race day comes they will be a |
| handicapping understand that workouts or works, as | | | | winning team. When you read the clocker's |
| they are sometimes called, are mostly just exercise, | | | | comments, and you really should, for each track you |
| but there are some special cases where a work can | | | | play, make special note of any horse that got a ride |
| be very significant. | | | | from a jockey. |
| The clockers who time the works and sometimes | | | | Then take a look at the horse's past performances, |
| comment on them will often let you know if a high | | | | trainer, and any other comment's the clocker has |
| profile jockey exercised a particular horse. If a | | | | made. Your job is to play detective and figure out |
| leading jockey takes the time to work a horse, he or | | | | what is going on with the horse. I can guarantee you |
| she may be doing a trainer a favor to try the horse | | | | that most people who bet on the horse's next race |
| and offer advice about a training decision. At other | | | | won't have done that. That extra bit of thought can |
| times, the jock may be deciding if the horse is worth a | | | | result in you knowing more than the crowd and in |
| ride in a race, though that decision is usually made by | | | | handicapping, that is known as having the edge and |
| the jockey's agent. | | | | that, my friends, is how you beat this game. |
| Another thing that may be going on is that the jockey | | | | You will know more about that horse than the crowd |
| may be familiarizing him or herself with the animal to | | | | so you will be like an insider. |