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The psychological question, the matter of an individual player’s character and nerve, is immensely important in betting operations of any type. A handicapper who selects his own horses is bound to have his confidence shaken by a series of losers. He may realize that he is not sure of himself and his ability, or the [...]
An aged horse which has been winning a good percent age of his races in a season almost always will be found to be an animal of former class dropped ‘way down in quality of opposition, pitted against a class of horse that could not have warmed him up in years before. Real racing class [...]
The American Thoroughbred, starting flat-footed in a mechanical gate and racing around turns at speeds often close to forty miles an hour, is subjected to terrific physical strain. A horse weighs a thousand pounds and more, and that half-ton of weight is corning down on a small hoof and an ankle that can be clasped [...]
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The first problem a player must lick is to train himself to find horses really solid, horses that really do figure to win quite apart from the prices they will pay, whether short or long. The second problem for a player is to de velop such confidence in his own judgment that he will not [...]
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Summaries of results achieved by all public selectors having a national or semi-national circulation arc tabu lated and published throughout the year by a monthly-turf magazine.2 These statistics uniformly show that no public handicapper or selector over a period of a year ever succeeds in showing a profit on whole-card selections at all tracks, assuming [...]
Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures–and it all started with Andrew Beyer’s Picking Winners. This edition features a new foreword in which the author discusses [...]
Most horse betting errors result from false reasoning, when any reasoning at all by the player has been involved. The tendency to follow selectors, scratch-sheets, tipsters or touts in its simplest terms means that the player will ac cept anyone as an expert because he knows that he him self is not one. The tendency [...]
Track dope, and the slush that gets into print about horses in weekly sheets and other fugitive media, always are saturated with the thought that a high percentage of races are affected in some way by outright crookedness or clever underground tactics, and that wins result from such practices and from little else. The mind [...]
