The Best Horse Races to Handicap and Win Consistently

By Bill Peterson

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Before you begin any kind of venture in life, do you first try to figure out how difficult it will be to succeed at that endeavor? Successful people usually have this one character trait. They will try to do difficult things, but they will also find out how difficult those things are and then choose the ones that they think they really can succeed with, given their talents and abilities. They don't mind a challenge, but they hate wasted efforts on impossible tasks.

Now let's apply that to horse racing handicapping and think about how we can use that insight to succeed at picking enough winning horses to make a profit. I am assuming that's what you want to do. If, on the other hand, you just want to bet for the sake of a thrill and try to charm Lady Luck into paying you a visit, then you really don't need to read this horse racing article.

Each person who reads this article is an individual and I can't tell you how to personally succeed as a handicapper. I wish I could, but I can't and unless someone else knows you very well, he can't tell you how to succeed as a handicapper, either. You have talents and abilities and some knowledge that is specific to your own life experience.

For instance, there are probably race tracks that you are more familiar with than others and also maybe you've picked up knowledge about trainers, jockeys, and maybe even the owners of some of the horses and stables. That is all to your advantage if you can somehow make sense of it all and use it. I teach people how to handicap using the basics and some horse racing angles, but how you put it all together with your own talents is the key to success.

Before you begin, however, I can say this. Know which races are the easiest to handicap. Apply what you know, but also research the races themselves. Generally speaking, the low level claimers are harder to handicap because the horses are more likely to lose their form than the horses at the top of the horse racing class ladder.

The top trainers and top horses in stakes races are usually more reliable and what you see on paper is more likely to hold true on the race track. So before you start spreading your money around on a lot of cheap races, think about that and how much better it might be to sit through the low level races and wait for the feature race of the day. There is a reason why they give you the lousy races first and make you wait for the good races, you know.

They realize that people will stick around for the good race and human nature such as it is, they'll bet on all those tough, low class races while they wait. The difference between a successful handicapper and a thrill seeking gambler is that the handicapper will sit through those races and save his money for a few well chosen bets on the better races where he has a better chance to use his handicapping skill.

If you want to learn how a horse owner and insider handicaps just go to http://williewins.homestead.com/true.html and get the truth about betting on horses and winning. Bill Peterson is a former race horse owner and professional handicapper. To see all Bill's horse racing material go to Horse Racing Handicapping, Bill's handicapping store.

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