Another almost certainly fatal practice of novices and sucker players is to bet relatively large amounts on horses they feel are certain to win and relatively smaller amounts on horses of whose chances they are not quite so confident. If this is done the player has no chance of sucess whatever. The player’s smaller bets, on animals re garded by him as much more chancy because the odds say they are, may yield some good prices. But these good prices will not be influential toward success on the whole string of wagers because the amounts bet were so small.