| If you're trying to pick horse racing winners you | | | | lost the least and you have to keep refining things. For |
| probably wish you had a good horse racing system. A | | | | instance, in your records there should be a note for |
| lot of people have a strong opinion of how to pick | | | | each race you played and how much you spent. |
| winners at the horse races and have their own little | | | | There should also be an explanation of why you |
| system. On the other hand, almost everyone who | | | | played that horse in that race. For instance, if you bet |
| goes to the races loses over the long haul. Have you | | | | a horse, call him Lucky Jim, in the $10,000 claiming race, |
| developed your own method by experimenting with | | | | then you should have noted what factors you used to |
| different factors and ways to combine them? | | | | evaluate him and why you bet him. It is also just as |
| If you have, you've probably already figured out that is | | | | important to note the losers as the winners. |
| absolutely maddening to try to beat the races. Even if | | | | The second part of my advice is that you shouldn't be |
| you manage to make a profit for a while, eventually | | | | starting at the very beginning. A lot of people have |
| you lose it all back. If it sounds like I've been reading | | | | been working at beating this game for a long time. |
| your mail, it is because I've been there and done that, | | | | Some of them have made some very interesting |
| too. My best advice is twofold. First of all, don't give up. | | | | discoveries. Their work can save you many weeks, |
| You are on the right track, so to speak, and you are | | | | months or even years of experimentation. The best |
| correct in assuming that winning at the races depends | | | | way to see what they discovered about picking |
| upon how you put the factors together. | | | | winners using a system is to look at the systems they |
| There is no magic in it. It is trial and error and being | | | | invented. You will find some work very well and with a |
| consistent that wins. But you have to keep notes or | | | | little tweaking and your own efforts, you could adapt a |
| records so you will know what worked the best or | | | | system to suit your own style and the track you play. |