| Horse Racing Handicapping - 3 Ways to Choose a | | | | up winners more frequently than other horses. There |
| Winner | | | | are some trainers who have the knack of even |
| Betting in a horse race is all about picking the horse | | | | converting a horse considered to be a poor bet into a |
| with the best chances of winning and horse racing | | | | winner by improving its performance. Finding out how a |
| handicapping is the best way to do this. This is an | | | | horse, at the beginning of its career is taken to the |
| opinion endorsed by experts over the years. | | | | winning post by a trainer, or how a trainer makes a |
| A lot of theories regarding horse racing handicapping | | | | winner out of a horse which has recently come to him, |
| have been developed recently and these theories or | | | | will be advantageous to a handicapper. Information |
| angles as they are called, are proving to be very | | | | about the performances of trainers is also readily |
| helpful to those who are serious about their betting. | | | | available and that limits the financial gains from this |
| 1. Speed Figures Handicapping | | | | angle. |
| The most popular angle in horse racing handicapping, | | | | 3. Pace Handicapping |
| this theory requires the handicapper to look for the | | | | Pace handicapping is a system where the handicapper |
| figures that denote the speed at which each horse | | | | selects a winner based on the speeds of a horse in |
| has run in the previous races. These figures are | | | | individual stretches of a race. This theory advocates |
| available in the Daily Racing Forms, but the internet, | | | | the idea that a horse that runs the early stretches fast |
| with its plethora of articles and analytical discussions | | | | and gains a lead at the beginning of a race, is more |
| provide the best information. The horse with the best | | | | likely to become the winner. If a horse had run past |
| timings normally wins a race. This angle has its | | | | races at very fast speeds even though it had lost the |
| drawbacks. The fact that the information is so easily | | | | race, it had better than even chances of winning the |
| available renders it ineffective to some extent. The | | | | present race. This is what this angle suggests. This |
| easy accessibility of the speed figures enables | | | | theory too has its drawbacks. An account of the |
| everyone and anyone to use them in picking the | | | | performances of a certain horse regarding its pace |
| winner, thereby diminishing the individual winnings. But in | | | | may not have considered other aspects like track and |
| spite of that, this is an effective angle and most | | | | weather conditions. Each horse has its own individual |
| handicappers use it. | | | | abilities and handicaps making it difficult to compare |
| 2. Trainer Handicapping | | | | horses based only on their speeds. |
| This is another very popular and effective angle in | | | | These and a few other horse racing handicapping |
| horse racing handicapping. It is popularly accepted that | | | | angles, like Class Handicapping and Physicality |
| the trainer has the ability to extract the best | | | | Handicapping are arguably the best methods to select |
| performance from a racehorse. Researchers have | | | | a winner in a horse race. |
| realized that horses trained by certain trainers come | | | | |