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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Handicapping Horse Races But Were Afraid To Ask

Horseracing, the “Sport of Kings,” has been around for thousands of years and therefore has a rich history. It can also be extremely complicated, especially if you are one of those ambitious souls who is determined to handicap the races and make some money for your efforts.

We are living in the information age and that means that almost every day finds a new product supplying us with yet more data about equine sports. After a while, the mind boggles and we realize we cannot possibly make sense of all the information and we go into information overload.

Breeding information, sire stats, trainer moves, track models, jockey strengths and weaknesses, the list goes on and on, and yet, we are using the same basic computer that our ancestors used to pick winners. I am talking about our brains. The human brain hasn’t changed much in thousands of years, but we are asking it to do more and more with more information.

Regardless of what our powerful computers can do, we, as humans, can only digest and assimilate so much data and then any more we try to add becomes useless. What we have to do is to use our brains to figure out what we need to know and how to get that information and then we need to disregard the rest.

That being said, have you ever asked yourself this question, “What do I need to know to successfully handicap horse races?”

Here is a suggestion to help you to get your handicapping under control. Sit down and make a list of the points that you need to know in order to successfully pick winners and to make money betting on them. It is amazing how many people cannot tell you what it is they are looking for when they read past performances or a racing program. If you don’t know what you are looking for, what you need to know, how will you know it when you see it?

The place to start is to look at recent winners and try to see what factors they had in common or that they possessed that the other runners did not. Make a list of those factors and you will soon have a list of what you need to know to find the next list of winners, before they run. That list of things they had in common will also serve as a list of things you need to know, in other words, everything you wanted to know about handicapping horse races.

Osborne had to fold in this EU poker game
Sometimes in poker, when you’re sitting with a pair of twos, it is better to fold than risk losing your shirt.

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Allston-Brighton crime: Poker tourney folded at Applebee’s
On April 28 at approximately 11 p.m., police detectives conducted a licensed premise inspection of the Applebee’s Restaurant at 381 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle.

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Provincial governments to cash in on online gambling
Lottery organizations in Quebec and British Columbia, as well as from the Atlantic provinces, are building an online poker site designed to take on traffic from the 2,000 illegal gambling sites operating in Canada.

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 – 00:15 EST
A few years ago, Empress Casino Hotel in Joliet angered the legion of video poker players it had cultivated by lowering the pay tables on many of its machines, including several popular banks of progressives.

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They’re going streaking — and were caught by police
In a scene reminiscent of the movie “Old School,” a Greenland police officer working a construction detail on Bartlett Street early Monday morning got a surprise when a naked woman ran by him. Turns out she and another man discovered streaking had lost at strip poker.

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18 arrests, $300,000 netted in gambling raid
After a month’s long investigation, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office executed a county-wide crackdown on illegal gambling machines. In the process, authorities made 18 arrests under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act and seized eight gas stations, 43 video poker machines, and approximately $300,000 in cash and checks.

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Greens want to secure lower pokie bet
The Tasmanian Greens have again moved to introduce lower poker machine betting limits.

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Buy-ins up as players try to avoid missing WSOP
The man running the World Series of Poker says early buy-ins are up and registration rules have changed as officials try to avoid shutting players out of the richest event in poker. Tournament director Jack Effel said Tuesday that more players than ever before have registered early for this year’s $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event in Las Vegas.

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Wednesday May 05, 2010 – 15:16 EST
AUSTRALIA — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may have expressed a desire to crack down on poker machines, but will not act on a demand to end gaming tax concessions, The Australian reported.

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Why we’re pumping less into pokies
ONLINE sports betting is sucking millions of dollars out of poker machines and reducing the tax returned to state coffers, industry experts say.

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horse racing
Hot Springs, Ark. — Noble’s Promise won’t be Lookin At Lucky when he runs in the Arkansas Derby.

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Animal rights group gatecrash races
As dolled-up young women descended on Royal Randwick’s Autumn carnival, animal protection campaigners also turned up urging punters to think about the ugly side of horse racing.

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Animal rights campaigners gatecrash race
As dolled-up women descended on Royal Randwick’s Autumn carnival, animal protection campaigners urged punters to think about the ugly side of horse racing.

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Racino supporters want portion of slot revenues to fund new Vikings stadium
Supporters of a plan to allow slot machine gambling at horse racing tracks say they now want most of the projected state revenue used to build a new Vikings stadium.

Read more on Minnesota Public Radio

Dateline Cowichan 1973: Cowichan drivers were built for speed
Worried about cars racing along James Street. In 1939, it wasn’t racing cars that were an issue. This shot shows the horse racing track on James with the Evans house visible in the background.

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