Winning and making a profit in horse racing requires a winning strategy if you are going to do it consistently. You can win with luck from time to time, but sooner or later luck runs out. A good horse racing strategy, method or system, whatever you want to call it, is necessary for long-term profit. There is a huge amount of data available and you can spend hours every day handicapping horses.
While you are harming horses, so are many other people, using roughly the same information that you are using. If you are using inside information, you definitely have an advantage. Inside information comes in many forms. You can find good horse racing advice that you pay for or get for being an expert, but if you don’t have access to that kind of information, don’t despair.
There is one type of insider information that you can use to develop a winning horse racing strategy. It’s free, but it requires a bit of research on your part. But a few hours of research can pay big dividends, and you can cash in big tickets with this kind of inside information.
Take your time and keep track of which horses are the favorites at the track you play on. Take some time after the races and look at each horse and decide why that horse was the favorite. What made the crowd choose that horse above all others? It may sound strange, but the handicap factors that make a horse the favorite at one track may not work at another track.
For example, you may find that the crowd at your local track places more value on the class than the crowd at another track. Perhaps it is the speed figures that make him a favorite on his track. You may even find that they play speed in one type of race and angles in another. The point is, if you can read the crowd by watching what and how they bet, you’ve begun to read the competition. In other words, to win at horse racing, you have to beat the crowd. Finding out how they think and what they value will give you an advantage.
How will that information help? Once you’ve figured out how they’ll bet, you can look for weaknesses in their thinking, especially when they make a horse the favorite when it’s obviously suspect. Practice watching the races ahead of time and find out which horse will be the favorite and why. Then start to weigh the different factors that the crowd has used or ignored in making their decision. Disability is a “decision-based” procedure. Find the flaws in their decision making and use the mistakes they make over and over again to your advantage.
Use a method like ladder handicapping to compare factors and you’ll soon find out the crowd. You will know what they know, but they won’t know what you know, that is a great advantage and in horse racing, as in any game, having the advantage makes you the winner.