| Knowing trainer moves is important if you want to | | | | bet on and still show a profit? |
| make a consistent profit. That means focusing on | | | | One way to know how ready a horse is and |
| one track or circuit and getting totally familiar with | | | | whether the trainer will be trying to win with the |
| the trainers and how they progress their horses from | | | | horse, to "Send it," as they say, is to look at the |
| races for conditioning and workouts to races for | | | | hidden fractions in the horses last two races. You |
| paychecks and wins. | | | | must combine this with how the trainer trains his or |
| First of all, forget about playing a bunch of tracks all | | | | her horses to know whether the horse is well meant |
| over the country day after day and making a | | | | or just out for exercise. |
| profit. That isn't real handicapping, it is gambling. If | | | | After the first quarter fraction of the race look at |
| you want to gamble, go ahead and do that, but don't | | | | the next fractions and determine if the horse made a |
| for a moment think that you are going to keep | | | | big middle move. If the horse made a big middle |
| making money that way. | | | | move in one race and showed big early or late speed |
| Handicapping for a living is brutal and requires you to | | | | in the other of the two previous races that may well |
| focus and become an expert on the track and circuit | | | | mean the trainer is testing the horse to see if it is |
| you are playing. That means knowing the trainers | | | | ready to win. Those moves are classic examples of |
| and how they train their horses. Each trainer has his | | | | how trainers will build bottom, or endurance in their |
| or her own way of taking a horse and conditioning it | | | | horses as well as testing them to know if they have |
| and getting it to progress forward. | | | | what it takes to win at the level they are competing |
| Some trainers use races to condition a horse and | | | | at. |
| others use works, while some use a combination. | | | | If you see a race pattern like the one described and |
| When you see a particular trainer's horse in a race | | | | then see a drop in class, the next thing to do is to |
| you should know how much the jockey is going to | | | | check the scoreboard. There are ways to compare |
| push the horse to win and whether he or she is just | | | | pools to figure out if the horse is being bet by inside |
| out to condition the horse or win. How many | | | | money. |
| horses who are not meant to win can you afford to | | | | |