When it comes to horse racing betting systems there are a lot of theories out there. The BIG question is can you really predict winners?

Well, the good thing is that you don’t have to! Horse racing systems is NOT about predicting winners. Instead, it’s a methodological approach to picking and betting on horse in such a way that you eliminate probabilities.

The biggest problem in any race is the sheer number of horses in the race. For every horse that you can “eliminate” you increase your chances of winning exponentially. In ANY given race you can eliminate 50% of the field by just using the right filters. Although this is not 100% accurate all of the time, it will improve your chances of winning by as much as 70%.

Horse racing betting systems turns betting from a game of chance into an exercise of skill. Surely you will always find those punters who do well by just betting on gut feelings but in the long run the very successful punters are the ones who develop and bet using a system.

Systems all around us. It is what enables virtually all technology. A system is nothing but an organized method that enables anyone to replicate and follow and exact procedure to produce a certain result. In short, a system is like a recipe and if you learn a certain recipe you can replicate a certain result. This is why I am such a big fan of horse racing betting systems. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of making bets.

I suggest you try as many betting systems as you can get your hands on. There are dozens of good books about the subject and there are countless manuals on the internet. Study them and learn from the real pro’s. There is no magic bullet, but with the correct system behind you, you can accelerate your success significantly.
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Betting on horse racing automatically places immense odds against you. You will always have the odds against you and you will lose more than you win. The real secret is to limit your losses as much as possible while maximizing your winning. If you lose, you want to lose small and when you win you want to win big.

So, how do you do this?

Many horse racing systems focus on this exact tactic and it involves a very simple handicapping principal: never bet on the favorites!

The favorites usually have poor odds and you will have to bet a lot to win a little. However, if you bet on horses with better odds you can win much more by betting less. The benefit is also that if you lose you won’t lose your shirt.

Don’t get me wrong – you can make a lot of money by betting on favorites but this is only for professional bettors who know what they are doing. Instead, start your racing picks by eliminating all the favorites unless a favorite has great odds. Next, you have to start looking lower down in the pack for horses with great odds who have a shot at winning that race.

The majority of times, the race favorites won’t win the race anyway. I suggest you study as many horse racing systems as you can get your hands on as it will teach you what to look for in horses lower down in the pack. By eliminating all the horses that don’t stand a statistical chance of winning you can dramatically increase your odds at picking winning horses. This is not an exact science but it sure beats blowing your money on favorites that never really make you anything back anyway.

Even though the odds are always against you, you can swing it your way with every horse you can eliminate from a race. Having only 5 or 6 horses to choose from can improve your chances of winning exponentially!
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As the system became more sophisticated and horse racing advanced many more factors were considered. Today, horse racing handicapping has evolved and the basic premise of thoroughbred handicapping is that in every race you can eliminate a lot of the horses by looking at potential weaknesses of a horse in a race.

This is a much an art as it is a science and learning to analyze past performance to predict future performance is the art that professional sports bettors have mastered. The math is really quite simple. If you can eliminate 6 out of the 10 horses in a race you can significantly improve your odds of picking winning horses.

So, what does thoroughbred handicappers look at? Every person has their own preference and most learn by experience what the best things is to look out for. Here are some of the most important handicapping elements that you can use.

Speed:
As a general rule of thumb the fastest horses win the most races. Unfortunately some really fast horses only have that speed over short distances, so you need to fctor in the various speed analysis when handicapping on speed.

Pace:
This refers to a horse’s running style and just like in an athletics race some runners will stay in the pack all race long before they break away while other want to run in front all the way. Pace handicappers will look at the time it takes for a horse to run a length and more recently the REXPOINTE indicator was introduced to help gauge a hors’s pace better.
Form:
Like any other sport, horses go through phases of performance. Horses are never on top of their form all the time. They go in and out of form all the time. By looking at a horses recent performance you can gauge if it’s in form or not. If it ended strong in the last few races then the horse is likely to be in form and even if it’s stats say otherwise it might come good and win the race based on form.

Class:
Horse races are classified by class. Generally faster horses will race in a higher class while slower horses will race in a lower class. The trick is that horses move between classes and can move either up or down based on recent performance. If a horse races above or below it’s class it can have a huge effect on the results of a race.

Horse racing handicapping can get very complicated and there are so many factors to look at an analyze. This is why horse betting systems became so popular. A system will look at only certain factors and usually at factors that are complimentary. By “stacking” these handicaps you can greatly improve your chances of success.
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While playing multiple tracks at one time can be lucrative to some people, it can also mean a very large loss for you if you find yourself losing on all the tracks that you are betting on. Success in horse betting relies on your being able to know when you should stop betting and how many tracks you should bet on. Don’t think that any win you make on one or two tracks will offset any losses you make on the others. This kind of thinking can leave you vulnerable to huge losses.

One of the best ways for you to make money is to win small but many times. This means that while odds for certain horse race bets may mean huge wins if you do win, there is still that factor of “if”. You should try to maximize your winning opportunities by betting on multiple choice bets like the show bets or the place bets and you will find that winning more often from such small odds bets adds up to a lot of money.

If you are really serious about making huge amounts of money from horse race betting, you should do your homework. This includes doing research on the horses that are scheduled to race on certain days on certain tracks, what their winning history is and other similar facts. You should also find out a bit about the jockeys that will be riding these horses. Track information, weather, track conditions on race day, track surfaces and other similar facts need to be part of your research as well for you to be able to come up with effective predictions for the bets you are planning on making and winning.

Horse betting can be pretty lucrative as long as you try to eliminate most of the risks involved in this activity. You can make a lot of money from this venture but only if you don’t get carried away by what you are doing or try to recoup your losses even when you feel that it is not your lucky day. Learn to quit when you find that your luck is not turning and bet another day when it is more favorable for you. Remember, above all the tips that you use for betting on horses, disciplining yourself is the most important one to follow and adhere to.
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When a person indulges in online horse betting, they not only have the chance to win money from horse races even when they are not at the track, they also get to watch the race online and even get racing information and detailed horse information from certain online sources.

When you bet on horse races online, you should know that you are actually at an advantage as compared to those who decide to go to a track to do their horse race betting.

Some of the advantages you get when you bet on these races online include the following:

You can actually bet on races from around the world if you want to. You can also bet on your favorite horses even when you are out of town or out of the country.

You do not waste time on the road to get to the tracks and you do not have to worry about traffic, parking and even being late in making the bet for the first race of the day. You also don’t need to spend extra on gas and the amount of money you would have spent on gas to get to the track could be used to place a bet on a horse you like instead.

When you bet online from home, you don’t need to dress up to make your bets. You can make your bets even when in your pajamas or in your underwear. You can also do whatever it is you want while waiting for the next race to be set up and to be run after you place your bet.

You can indulge in multi-track betting when you do your horse race betting online. You can choose to place bets on a number of major and minor tracks at the same time when you are doing your betting online, something you can’t do when you go to a track to bet.

There are some limitations to the amount you bet on online horse betting however and depending on the site you are placing your bets on. The most common minimum bet you can place online is $1 for most sites with a maximum bet of $2000 being placed on all types of bets online. The odds for these bets can vary from one site to another and from one track to another but most of the online betting sites for horse racing often give people a list of odds for major and minor tracks.

Most of the major tracks that you place your bets on often give higher odds as compared to minor ones. For example, if you bet “win” on a major track, you get a 60/1 odds whereas if you place the same bet on a minor track, you get only 29/1 odds.
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Win – This is one of the most common and easiest to understand bets that you can place on any horse. When you bet “win” on a horse, you are wagering a certain amount of money on the chance that the horse you picked will finish the race ahead of all the other horses.

Place – You can only win from a “place” bet if the horse you chose to bet on finishes in the first two places of the race.

Show – This kind of a bet is one you make when you are wagering that the horse you chose finishes in any of the top three slots of the finishers in the race.

Across the Board – When you place an across the board bet, you are essentially placing a show bet that has options. This bet basically gives you more chances to win, especially if your horse finishes in first place. When your chosen horse finishes in third place, you collect the winnings from the show bet. When the horse places second, you can collect on two bets, namely the show and the place bet. First place means you collect on three bets. This kind of a bet is one of the bets that people often find most advantageous to bet on.

Exacta – This kind of a bet pays big but often depends on exact results hence the name. This allows you to bet on which horse you think will finish in first place and in second place. The result has to be exact for you to win.
Exacta Box – This bet is similar to the Exacta bet but gives you the chance to place two horses in either first or second place. If the two horses you chose both place in the top two, regardless of which one wins first or second, you win the bet.

Trifecta – This kind of a bet is somewhat prophetic in nature since you will need to predict the top three finishers in proper order. If you prophesy correctly, you get huge amounts of money for doing so. This is one of the most difficult bets to win but is also one of the most lucrative.

Trifecta Box – This bet is similar to the Exacta Box bet but with three horses being listed instead of only two in the winning slots. Winning this bet is dependent on all three horses finishing in the top three slots regardless of position for each.

Superfecta – Probably one of the toughest bets in horse racing betting is the superfecta. This bet requires you to place the top four of the race in proper order for you to win huge amounts of money.
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If you want to make the big money from horse races, then you either have to up your betting amounts or you have to start betting on better odds. Unfortunately better odds can greatly reduce your chances of winning. However, some long shot bets are actually worth looking into and by applying this simple method you can greatly increase your chances of winning with long shot bets.

First of all, never base your betting predictions on so-called tip offs from a friend’s friend. They rarely work and it’s a recipe for losing money. Here’s a simple betting strategy that you can use to pick winning horses with great odds.

- Look through the morning line and find every horse that has odds of 10-1 or higher
- Look ate very one in more detail and find the ones that have won previously. Make sure that they have won…

a) at the same distance,
b) on the same surface
c) at the same class or higher

- Look at the race favorites. Try and identify false favorites – those favorites that probably don’t belong there because of some statistical flaw.

- If there are false favorites, you should take the long shot bet. Basically you now have as good if not a better chance as the favorite. The only difference is that your odds are MUCH better and you will win ten times what you would have won by playing the favorites.

This betting system basically revolves around the fact that if a horse have won previously under the same conditions, then he has a good chance of doing it again. Horse go out of form, the get new trainers, they change training routines – a lot of factors outside the race track can influence a horse’s performance.

Nothing is as reliable an indicator as a horse’s previous winning history. If you are going to make long shot bets, then make sure you apply this betting method to help you tilt the odds in your favor. Yes, the risk is there but the rewards make it worth it. Playing the favorites is safer, but your wins won’t bring you as much money as winning with bigger odds.
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While computer software has made it much easier to analyze statistics and data there are still a lot of people who go to the races and start betting blindly. There is a big difference between gamblers and sensible handicappers. Gamblers bet blindly and usually go on tip-offs and their “gut feeling”. Good horse racing handicappers on the other hand troll through statistics and play the odds very mechanically and stick to a strict methodology.

You can’t predict every race, but if you get more scientific about it you can see how certain patterns emerge. Horses that win races have things in common. The most effective horse racing systems simply identify there patterns and gives you a step-by-step method to pick horses based on these patterns.

You don’t need to get overly sophisticated with y betting system. Often the simplest ones work best. The key thing however is to actually apply it diligently. Here’s a simple method to pick winning horses that works very well…

This horse racing system is based on the fact that 90% of the time, the favorite horse that ticks all the right boxes and that looks like it’s most likely to win, does not win. See, most people get deceived by the odds and the popularity of a horse – and it’s usually based on one impressive statistic.

They overlook the shortcomings of the horse. These horses are called false favorites because they have a statistical flaw that everybody overlooks. If you can identify these false favorites you can eliminate a lot of the favorite and thereby increase your odds of winning significantly.

Here are 3 ways to identify false favorites:

1. Eliminate favorites that has not raced in the last 35 days
2. Eliminate favorites who are not running in the same or a lesser class
3. Eliminate favorites who do not have a race speed in the top 3

This is a pretty strict criteria and often you will eliminate ALL the favorites in the race. In that case, don’t bet on that race. The success of a any good racing system relies on your self discipline to apply the rules. This system is not perfect, but as you get better with it you can have as much as a 70% win rate with it. As you get better you can start to make more refinements and start applying some of your own rules to help you pick even more winners.
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