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If youre trying to make
it pay at gambling on horse racing, simplicity is so often the best
way.
Most of us mere mortals dont have any kind of insider
knowledge of the sport even if we may think we do. Successful gambling
for us, then, is a war of attrition. We simply need to try and win more than we
lose given the value, and to come out ahead over a long period of time. This is
stating the screamingly obvious, of course, but to bear this in mind may also
be the key to success: simplicity works best.
Were all dreaming
of big wins and big-priced winners but remember that if you could make 10% over
the course of several hundred bets in a year, youd be beating most
professional fund managers hands-down. Most gamblers come nowhere near this
kind of performance, whatever they may tell you.
One way you may
achieve this kind of result is in using your
study of racing statistics or
finding good horse racing guides to follow individual trainers at their
specialist courses and betting only in handicaps at odds bigger than the field
so at least 9/1 or better in a ten-horse race etc.
What
youre then looking for is the perfect Venn diagram of a
trainer you know to have a successful hit rate at a particular course, along
with a horse at a good price you think will be trying but which the
market has overlooked, relatively speaking. This may sound an obvious strategy,
but its surprising how few and far between youll find such
opportunities. And when you do therell always seem to be good
reasons, like a poor last run, ground against the horse etc. You must have the
courage of your convictions to ignore such extraneous noise and to be a little
contrarian, trusting only your own judgment.
Remember if the
market were always right, this game would be easy.
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