subject: Find Your Handicapping Style To Win At The Dog Track [print this page] If you sit with other handicappers at the dog track, you probably notice that they go over their program differently than you do.
You may use a system of points for each dog or circle the dogs who look good to you. They may not make a mark on the page, but instead depend on their memory to tell them which dog should be considered a contender.
Some people have little rituals. They have a special lucky pen or a lucky shirt that they always wear to the track. Others don't believe luck has anything to do with it and take their handheld computer with a greyhound handicapping program on it.
None of this is "wrong" or "right", except that it's almost impossible for anyone to remember enough about each dog in each race to bet on them with any accuracy. I've never known anyone who didn't mark their paper to amount to much at handicapping dogs.
The thing is that what's right for one person, may be wrong for another person. And two people can reach the exact same conclusion and pick a winner by using completely different methods.
For example, I use the Graded Greyhound Handicapping System to pick winners in all grades at the dog track. My friend uses The Two Key Trifecta System and cashes tickets right along with me. However, we both use The Marks Method because it picks so many winners that pay off at long odds.
If you've found something that works for you, it's what you should use, even if other people are telling you that their approach is better. If you're cashing tickets and leaving the track with more money than you came in with, then whatever system or method you're using obviously works for you.
If, however, what you're doing isn't working. If you've tried someone else's system, even, and it doesn't work either, you need a new approach. Find another method and try it on paper to see if it works. That's the only way to really test a greyhound handicapping system.
Find Your Handicapping Style To Win At The Dog Track
