Winning and making a profit at the horse races requires a winning strategy if you are going to do it consistently. You can win with luck once in a while, but sooner or later luck runs out. A good horse racing strategy, method, or system, whatever you want to call it, is necessary for long range profits. There is a lot of data available and you can spend hours every day handicapping the horses.



While you are handicapping the horses so are many other people, using about the same information that you are using. If you are using inside information, you definitely have an advantage. Inside information comes in many forms. You can find good horseracing tips that you pay for or that you get by being an insider, but if you don't have access to that kind of information, don't despair.









There is one kind of inside information that you can use to develop a winning horse racing strategy. It is free, but does require a little research on your part. But a few hours research can pay big dividends and you can cash some nice tickets on this kind of inside information.



Take some time and keep track of which horses are the favorites at the track you play. Take some time after the races and look at each horse and decide why that horse was the favorite. What made the crowd pick that horse above all others? It may sound strange, but the handicapping factors that make a horse the favorite at one track may not work at another track.



For instance, you may find that the crowd at your local track places more value on class than the crowd at another track. Perhaps it is speed figures that makes a favorite at your track. You may even find that they play speed in one kind of race and angles in another. The point is, if you can figure out the crowd by looking at what they bet and how they bet it, you have started to figure out the competition. In other words, to win at horse racing handicapping, you have to beat the crowd. Figuring out how they think and what they value will give you an edge.



How will that information help? Once you have figured out how they will bet you can look for weaknesses in their thinking especially where they make a horse the favorite when it is obviously suspect. Practice looking at the races ahead of time and figuring out which horse will be the favorite and why. Then, start weighing the different factors the crowd has used or ignored to make their decision. Handicapping is a "decision based" procedure. Find the flaws in their decision making and use the mistakes that they make over and over again to your advantage.



Use a method like Ladder Handicapping to compare factors and you will soon figure out the crowd. You will know what they know, but they won't know what you know, that's a great edge and in horse racing handicapping, like any gambling, having the edge makes you the winner.

By: Bill Peterson

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Bill Peterson has been in horse racing for 50 years. "Horse Racing is in my blood." Learn how an insider handicaps horse races by visiting Bill's website Horse Racing Handicapping with Willie's. To see the systems Bill uses, go to Bill's Handicapping Store or True Handicapping