Originally posted by spider_007
thing about it you got to do it with pure logic and conciance. If your emotions get involved; "your fvcked"
that's the truest thing I have heard in regards to horse racing...
You don't know how many times STILL I will loose a huge payday, simply becasue it's something small about the horse I don't like... like the the jockey.. For intance, I don't know why, but I hate Chantel Southerland... I've seen her in person... she's actually about at least a HB 7-8, but as far as horse racing on a big level, she isn't near the top, but she is good enough to win from time to time.
There was a race a couple of weeks ago, that I KNEW the horse she was on was so good that he could win IN SPITE of her riding it if she made a mistake, but yet, I couldn't bring myself to put th money down on the horse... Horse won and paid $30 something dollars
Really horse racing all comes down to using "Logic"... Why in the world would a horse that finished just a half a lenth out in allowance class drop down to a low level Claiing class, where you can claim the horse after the race? What happens when you get a bunch of hroses that have to have the lead in the race? What happens if there is no PACE in the race? (Unless the horse is named Ghostzapper, if he comes from the back of the pack, he has no chance of winning the race)
Let's see... the Best investment you can make is signing up for
www.racereplays.com .. it's just $25.00 a month to watch unlimited races of past preformances... I could handicap all of my races off of that (and have before) and it's damn cheap... nothing explains more than actually seeing the horses run shows alot you don't see in the DRF.
I would recommend staying away from the DRF.. too many people use it, the same longshot you see, is the same longshot everyone else will see, meaning he wont' be a longshot anymore. You can find out jockey and trainer stats for free at equibase.com and you can look at workout times (extremely important, learn how to read them, will make and save you alot of money ) at Drf.com for free.
This is my first year doing it full time.. I started in April and so far I have made a little over $500,000... but keep in mind, My starting bankroll was close to $100,000 (I took a part of the money I got from starting my business, and put the rest in the bank and havne' ttouched it)... If I would have started with say... $500, ,actually I would have still made more than enough to pay my bills... I bet so much that I usually can't play exactas, because my bets throw off the Mutal pools... If there were more people betting exactas, I could have easilly made over $1 Million by now... If you gave me $100 over a weekend, I can turn it into $1,000 by betting exactas.
Also, I only bet 3 days a week (Thrusday, Friday and Sunday.. when Santa Anita and Saratoga is racing on Mondays, I bet mondays as well) and only at tracks with big mutal pools (Aqueduct, Belmont, Del Mar, Santa Anita, Oak Tree (same thing), Hollywood Park, at times Arlington... I always bet Hawthorne, that's my favorate track)
YOu have to really, really like horse racing... because you are going to loose, and alot when you start out.. The only reason I even though about keeping at it was becuse I genuinlly love the sport.
The absolute best way to start out... you are pretty much gurarateed to make money unless you are a total dumbass, is to sign up with racereplays.com, pick a track, perferrably one that stays open most of the year (Calder Race Course) and go back say, a month or so, and start watching all of the races and start making notes on each horse in each race.
So when a new race comes up, you can just search for the horse in your Excel file, and compare his notes with all of the other notes you have on the other horses.. by this you should know horses tendencies, horses pace, is he dropping/raising in class, etc.
