Keep Your Horse In Good Condition with Horse Workouts

The kind of a race that the horse will have is usually dependant on its workouts

. In his book, Picking Winners, Andrew Beyer points to the amazing Secretariat as one illustration of this. Secretariat had some truly brilliant workouts: 3 furlongs in 32 and 3/5ths of a second, and a mile in 1:35 2/5th. Entering his three-year-old season, Secretariat was in line to be the next superhorse, but a loss at the Wood Memorial Stakes created some uncertainty over this. Instead of dominating this race like he had his others, Secretariat finished with the weakest performance of his life. For a workout before the Wood Memorial, his 4 furlong time was 49 seconds flat, a time that is not uncommon for minor league horses' workouts. Although a lot of people just viewed this as a slow tune up, it was a warning sign that something was not right with the horse. The astute bettor would have detected this, and could have been careful betting on the budding superstar.

The Wood Memorial was said to be a preparation race for the Kentucky Derby, and after the Wood, lots of people thought that Secretariat's probabilities of winning the most esteemed race in the United States were critically affected. With a pair of fast workouts just before the Derby, however, Secretariat gave signs that he was back to his old self, or perhaps better. Secretariat's Kentucky Derby time still stands to this day as the fastest time ever recorded for the race.

What does this suggest? Obviously, the more observant you are of a horse's workout times, the better job you will do of handicapping. However, this is easier said than done. Usually, only a horse's most current workouts will be posted on its previous performance record. Knowing the typical workout for a given class of horses will hugely help you to completely handicap a race. To have a better grasp of this info, go through the workout times that are published daily on www.drf.com. It is also valuable if you know how certain horses are carrying out in workouts against other horses. Luckily, this information is gathered for you in the Daily Racing Form. A bullet by a workout time means that the horse executed the fastest workout of the day for that specific distance. This is much more important at the major tracks than it is at smaller tracks. This is simply due to the level of workouts that they hold. A course like Saratoga, in particular, will have many more workouts each morning than a track like Finger Lakes.

Keep Your Horse In Good Condition with Horse Workouts

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