Simple 2-Step Horse Handicapping Method

Of course there is a lot that can be done when you handicap horse races, but there are also a couple of simple steps that you can follow in order to be successful when horse wagering. You want to make some cash by picking a winner in a race. You know you cannot pick a winner all of the time, but you will be able pick a winner a certain percentage of the time. Maybe it can be 1 of 3 races or even 1 in 5 races.

If you are aware how often a horse will be a winner you may ask how can you then make money off that certain horse? You have to be aware the odds of the horse to win money. If you pick a horse in a race will win 1 in 5 races then any horse you pick at the 1 in 5 rate will have to have odds of at least 5/1 for you to make a profit. Because of this if you wager 5 horses in 5 races at $1 per wager, you will be spending $5, but you will get $6 returned, as at least 1 will win. Therefore, this means that it is a profitable wager.

This can be explained another way. To make money, turn a profit, you have to do 2 things, which are:

1. Find out how often a horse will win a race. What this means is that you have to find out how to handicap a horse race.

2. Find out the odds that you need to get on a horse to turn a profit based on how many times you think a horse will be a winner.

If you look t the example above the horse would win 1 in 5 times and you are solid in your handicapping skills you can be confident in saying that if the exact same race was run 5 times then the horse would win at least one of the races. You should then turn a profit by carefully picking and choosing what horses you bet on based on the odds on each horse. Then you just wait until horses you have pinpointed have odds that are good as 5/1 is posted at higher odds.

To begin to handicap it is a good idea to start looking at race programs for the day at a track. Look at the race and right beside each horse in a race write down how often you believe that horse will be the winner out of 10 races. For example, if you believe a horse will win 1 of 10 races jot down 10-1. If you believe a hoarse will win 5 of 10 races, or ½ the time, jot down 1-1. A horse at 1-1 will win even money. A horse that you believe will win ½ of the time will turn a profit for you any time it has odds that are better then even money.

Practice this formula after you have done it for a while and go back over race programs and see how right or wrong you were when looking at the horses. Jot down how many horses you had at the odds of 2/1, 3/1, 4/1 and so on. Check how many times those horses won the race. After then find out which horses won the race with profitable odds.

It may be the case that you discover you are decent at choosing horses at 5/1 odds that would turn you a profit if you constantly wager on them when they had odds of 5/1 or greater. A pattern may also be shown as well. What horses you chose at 5/1 won at least 1 race and what horses did not? The aspects you use when handicapping can become tools you can use if they work and you can bail on them if they did not. This is not a handicapping method per say, but a method you can try out nonetheless.