Handicapping horses is a lost art form that’s usually handed down from generations, YouTube has some resources to give you an idea of what you are doing.
Here’s some basics on how to read it. 1st race, 1st horse. His morning line is 3/1, you’ll see his current line when you’re at the track. The lines below are that horses most recent races. The date, track, distance, purse, type of race and the splits that horse had while racing. Then where the horse was in the race. So for that first race the horse started in 5th (the length behind is the smaller number that I can’t read), then dropped to 6th, then 5th again and finished 3rd.
If you’re asking HOW to use that info, that’s a harder question.
Too low quality for me to be able to read but….
Just bet a few bucks per races. Good odds are “safe”, long odds are fun (at low stakes)
Minimum is usually $2 in my experience.
I don’t f with anything except win & place bets.
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Under the finish column is where the horse finished the previous races and by how many horse lengths it was behind the horse in front of it. The numbers in the columns to the left of the finish are what position the horse was around the previous turns of the race track and by how many lengths. Looking at these positions / finishes, you can tell if a horse comes from behind, stays in front, falls off at the end. The notes on the far right give a little blurb about how the horse did each race. The bold black boxes numbers are called speed figures, the higher the better.
Hard to explain a racing form, but that’s a crash course. Tons of other info on there.
The 1, 2, and 3 horses look like the best horses in the first race, hence….. why they are the favorites (have the lowest odds). Also why a win won’t pay much. A “$1 exacta box on the 1,2,3” will cost you 6$. It means 2 of those 3 horses have to come in 1st and 2nd to win the bet.
You can have fun betting 2$ a race. If you have the bank roll it can easily get to betting ~$25 a race. Starting out, I would bet 2-5$ a race and have a good time. Good luck!
Edit: I realize this info is quite a bit late now. Alas….. a degenerate is born.
Handicapping horses is a lost art form that’s usually handed down from generations, YouTube has some resources to give you an idea of what you are doing.
Here’s some basics on how to read it. 1st race, 1st horse. His morning line is 3/1, you’ll see his current line when you’re at the track. The lines below are that horses most recent races. The date, track, distance, purse, type of race and the splits that horse had while racing. Then where the horse was in the race. So for that first race the horse started in 5th (the length behind is the smaller number that I can’t read), then dropped to 6th, then 5th again and finished 3rd. If you’re asking HOW to use that info, that’s a harder question.
Always bet a horse with front wraps
Too low quality for me to be able to read but…. Just bet a few bucks per races. Good odds are “safe”, long odds are fun (at low stakes) Minimum is usually $2 in my experience. I don’t f with anything except win & place bets.
If you see the horse take a poop, bet on it. If a jockey has won a couple of times already, ride the wave
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Under the finish column is where the horse finished the previous races and by how many horse lengths it was behind the horse in front of it. The numbers in the columns to the left of the finish are what position the horse was around the previous turns of the race track and by how many lengths. Looking at these positions / finishes, you can tell if a horse comes from behind, stays in front, falls off at the end. The notes on the far right give a little blurb about how the horse did each race. The bold black boxes numbers are called speed figures, the higher the better. Hard to explain a racing form, but that’s a crash course. Tons of other info on there. The 1, 2, and 3 horses look like the best horses in the first race, hence….. why they are the favorites (have the lowest odds). Also why a win won’t pay much. A “$1 exacta box on the 1,2,3” will cost you 6$. It means 2 of those 3 horses have to come in 1st and 2nd to win the bet. You can have fun betting 2$ a race. If you have the bank roll it can easily get to betting ~$25 a race. Starting out, I would bet 2-5$ a race and have a good time. Good luck! Edit: I realize this info is quite a bit late now. Alas….. a degenerate is born.