| It is not impossible to make money off the races, but it | | | | regularly race horses on one circuit and get to know |
| does take work to become a horse racing | | | | their moves, you have a chance to win money at |
| handicapping expert. Like anything else in life, you must | | | | horse racing handicapping. |
| want it to succeed at it. The reason is that so many | | | | It still isn't easy, but it is possible. It takes hours of study |
| people are trying to do the same thing. | | | | and you must keep notes. At first it seems like a |
| On any given day across the country and around the | | | | daunting task and there is a lot of time spent just |
| world there are people who are doing their very best | | | | watching. Like a fisherman who waits for a fish to |
| to handicap the races and make money. For some | | | | swim by and take the bait, you must wait for the right |
| people it is a matter of necessity. For others it is a | | | | situation when you think the trainer has gotten his or |
| hobby, but they take it seriously. Whether it is an | | | | her horse in the right situation to win. Then you need to |
| intellectual exercise or a matter of financial survival, | | | | know that the trainer is indeed going to make the |
| there are people who are working at handicapping. | | | | move, or in the jargon of the backstretch, to "send," |
| So if you are trying to make money at it, that is what | | | | the horse. |
| you are up against. The only way you are going to | | | | You can study the trainers on your own and begin to |
| make money and stake your claim to the millions that | | | | figure them out, but using a good method of tote |
| are wagered everyday is to become an expert. | | | | board analysis like the one in True Handicapping will |
| There are different ways to become an expert. One | | | | make it easier to figure out if the stable is betting the |
| way it to learn everything you can about thoroughbred | | | | horse. My advice is, if you truly want to be successful, |
| horses and the business of racking. Unless you were | | | | work, work, work, and use a method like true |
| born into it and grew up on the backstretch, that isn't | | | | handicapping to justify a good bet. |
| likely to happen. | | | | You may just be one of the few who through hard |
| A route that is easier and more feasible is to become | | | | work become a successful handicapper. If this sounds |
| an expert in a smaller sphere of influence. What I | | | | like too much work or effort, then I suggest you |
| mean is that you need to select one track or circuit | | | | consider yourself a recreational handicapper and |
| and learn as much as you can about the people who | | | | confine yourself to bets you can afford, and as they |
| race on that circuit. If you have ten trainers who | | | | say, "Don't quit your day job. |