subject: How to Become a Better Horse Racing Handicapper [print this page] How to Become a Better Horse Racing Handicapper
If you are trying to handicap horse races to make a little profit or even to make a lot of profit, you have probably discovered just how hard it is to make money betting on horses. There are people who really do know how to handicap a horse race, but it is very rare that one will share his or her secrets unless you're a relative or dear friend. The art and science of picking winners at the track, for the most part, is a closely guarded secret and the serious, successful horse players are as secretive as a medieval guild.
While there are some very good books on the subject, when you see the picks made by the people who write those books, it is easy to see that even the experts sometimes struggle to consistently pick winners at the track. My advice is to read all the books, not so that you can use the methods described in them so much as that you will understand why other people pick the horses that they pick and why they ultimately lose. Understanding the crowd, the people you are trying to beat, is very important.
Understanding the crowd is important but there is only another group that you must work even harder to understand and that is the real pros. Professionals who run a handicapping service and sell the information won't tell you all their secrets, but they will tell you which horses they think are the best and once in a while give you a little hint or clue as to why the horse should be backed. That is the key to learning how to handicap a horse race for profit. Naturally, they don't give their picks away, but if you pay for the service, you will be one of the people with inside information from a professional.
They don't mind selling their services because they know that 99% of the people who pay for the picks just want an easy way to win and won't do all the work of studying the picks. There is nothing wrong with that, after all, the customers paid for that information, but smart handicappers also study the form to see why those horses were chosen so they will eventually understand how to pick winners.
The process is simple. Buy a subscription from a good handicapping service and look at the horses that they choose and then, look at the past performances to see if you can figure out why the handicapper picked that particular horse. Why not just do it with the horses that the public handicappers choose, you may ask? Because public handicappers are good, but not good enough. You need someone who gets paid by private clients to pick winners, someone who is better than good because that is what you want to be, isn't it?
Following the picks of the handicappers in the popular racing forms will help you to become good, but to become very good or even great, to make money at this game, you need to go to the best. Find a handicapping service that offers a money back guarantee and has a credible handicapper. Every day, get the past performances and then look at the horses the handicapper picks and eventually it will click and you will be able to pick winners just as well and you will understand the handicapping game as few people do.
