Saratoga Handicapping Angles The 40-day Saratoga racing season lasts throughout the heart of the summer, running six days a week (every day except Tuesday) from Friday, July 21 until Labor Day, Monday...
Dirt route races are just one of the many facets of handicapping in New York that are challenging at this time of the year. Horseplayers who understand the differences between horses that excel in two...
Twenty-seven years ago, at Gulfstream Park, handicapping author Andrew Beyer had a sad epiphany. “I felt that I was at the very top of my game as a gambler. And I still couldn’t win,” Beyer wrot...
Consider this the second big stakes night of probably 30 we’ll encounter over the course of this harness racing season. Sun Stakes Saturday gathers the best of each division to see which horse I fas...
If there is one mistake that I see both new and veteran handicappers make time and time again it is confusing probability with profitability — often in very inconsistent and haphazard ways. For inst...
Ask bettors why they lose and/or what keeps them from making more money gambling and, chances are, most will point to a lack of money management acumen — “my betting sucks” being a popular, if n...
Several years before I was born, in 1962, the late, great Dick Francis wrote his very first novel, “Dead Cert.” A racing correspondent for The Sunday Express of London and former champion jump joc...
Anybody who’s ever attempted to make consistent profits from betting knows that it’s easier said than done. Sure, we can all boast about that one time back in 1996 when we cashed on a seven-team p...
The Belmont Stakes has come and gone, but a full month still remains at the Belmont Park spring/summer meet. Contained herein are some tips and trends to help handicappers finish strong as the Belmont...