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When dealing with handicapping it is necessary to see that any and every method, means, angle or system have its’ own strengths and its’ own weaknesses. Anything you use to select or pick horses with shall always have a limit on how well it can get any horse for any value position. Value position is any one of the positions of win, place, show, fourth and fifth. Fourth and fifth positions are for superfectas and high 5’s respectively. They are value positions because these positions have the value of money when being in the form of base bets or part of other bets in which money can be made. For any value position there’ll be limited amounts of information for it. The statistics in the Daily Racing Form can’t tell you everything you need to know about any given horse even if it gives you substantial amounts.
In horse racing there’s literally hundreds of angles, factors, methods and systems in combination forms to use in order to try to predict the outcome of a races. The secret of handicapping systems and methods is that some systems and methods are much stronger in prediction ability than others for the specific value positions selected. If you’re going to play any one or more of the 14 types of bets available to the public you have to test each method, factor or angle on each value position you intend to play. Some people test with paper, pencil or pen and some people test with their money by buying tickets.
Every single system, method or angle is different from the next. The track variant is different from the pace. The jockey standings are different from the trainer standings and so on. No two methods, factors, angles or systems are equal or the same in details. So when testing any method for any value position you are looking for the strongest method for that value position. Players spend years searching for the methods or factors to fit their chosen bets the best so they can profit.
Each value position has its’ own difficulties. Today we have computers to help us, unlike the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and parts of the 1990″s. Today we have the internet with immense amounts of information on handicapping and horse racing in general. Most of it useful in many ways. Much of it tells you what you need to learn in the basics such as form, class, pace, track knowledge, jockey, etc. But rarely does it tell you to test methods, factors, systems and angles and what are the best ways to test them. One the main things to understand about racing is that racing is made of two major divisions: Profitcapping which is the money side only that deals with value positions and Handicapping which is the selecting horses side only which deals with order-of-finish-positions. Each division has its’ own systems, factors and methods that must be tested for their specific value positions.
Remember that every value position has its’ own best method. Every method or system has its’ own strengths and its’ own weaknesses. No two methods are exactly alike in details and gives the same outcome or results over extended amounts of time. Every method needs to be tested for the value positions to be played. This is the secret of handicapping systems and methods in horse racing that must be understood.
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