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Horse Racing Handicap: 3 Ways to Pick a Winner
Betting on a horse race is all about choosing the horse with the best chance of winning and horse racing handicap is the best way to do that. This is an opinion endorsed by experts over the years.
Many theories of handicap in horse racing have been developed recently and these theories or angles as they are called are proving very useful for those who are serious about their betting.
1. Speed Figure Handicapping
The most popular angle on horse racing handicap, this theory requires handicap to look up figures that indicate the speed at which each horse has run in previous races. These figures are available on Daily Racing Forms, but the Internet, with its plethora of articles and analytical discussions, provides the best information. The horse with the best times usually wins a race. This angle has its drawbacks. The fact that the information is so easily available makes it ineffective to some extent. The easy access to the speed figures allows anyone and everyone to use them to pick the winner, thus diminishing individual gains. But regardless, this is an effective angle and most handicappers use it.
2. Disability of the coach
This is another very popular and effective angle in horse racing. It is popularly accepted that the trainer has the ability to extract the best performance from a race horse. Researchers have found that horses trained by certain trainers win more often than other horses. There are some trainers who have the knack of even turning a horse considered a bad bet into a winner by improving his performance. Finding out how a horse, early in his career, is brought to the winning stall by a trainer, or how a trainer turns a horse who has recently reached him into a winner, will be to the advantage of a handicapper. Information on the performance of coaches is also readily available and that limits the financial gains from this angle.
3. Slow down
Pace handicap is a system in which the handicapper selects a winner based on a horse’s speeds in individual legs of a race. This theory defends the idea that a horse that runs early, stretches fast, and takes the lead at the start of a race, is more likely to become the winner. If a horse had passed races at very fast speeds even though he had lost the race, he had a better chance of winning the current race. This is what this angle suggests. This theory also has its drawbacks. A description of a certain horse’s performances with respect to his pace may not have considered other aspects such as track and weather conditions. Each horse has its own individual abilities and handicaps, making it difficult to compare horses based solely on horse speed.
These and some other horse racing handicap angles such as class handicap and physical handicap are arguably the best methods of selecting a winner in a horse race.
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