subject: Introduction To Horse Handicapping [print this page] Horse racing has been around for thousands of years and has a long history. It can be a very involved and complicated sport, especially if you are a better who is ambitious enough to handicap horses to make some money. Thanks to the Internet there is all types of information available to people with all kinds of interests that are looking to learn all types of things about horse handicapping. As far as the actual sport of horse racing is concerned, you can find everything about sire stats, trainer moves, track models, jockey strengths and weaknesses and breeding information among the hundreds of other subjects that can be researched online about equine sports.
Many people still think that even with the availability of the Internet, the best computer to use for handicapping is the human brain. If you are wondering how you can succeed with horse handicapping or how you can become better at it, you need to have a plan. You have to have a plan to help you get your handicapping under control. You need to start by sitting down and making a list of all of the points you need to know in order to pick the winners successfully so that you can make the most money betting on them. This might seem obvious, but you would be surprised to learn just how many people can not tell you what it is they are looking for when they pick their winners, when they read a racing program and read past performances. Think about it if you dont have a clue what you are looking for and you dont know what you need to know, how on Earth are you going to succeed with it?
You can always look at recent winners in the different horse races to try to see if there were any factors that they all had in common or if they possessed a certain something that other horses did not. Also, you have to make a list of these things so that you can concretely think about them all. Making a list is going to help you visualize anything in common between the different horses that you are looking for. Not only that, but this list of common factors that you create is going to be your list of what you need to keep an eye out for in the next race for the next set of winners before they run. Everyone has their own little tactics, tricks and superstitions about the best ways to horse handicapping, but it takes time and experience in order for each person to get in a groove and become familiar and recognize what they know, what they dont know and what they need to know in order succeed.
