Sight Handicapping for Increased Winnings

Knowing what to look for while watching a race can lead you to future winners at remarkable prices. Watching races for signs of trouble or good efforts, can pay off handsomely in future betting opportunities.

To effectively watch a race for future betting contenders requires concentrating on three key elements.

• horses who get in trouble with traffic or other occurrences
• horses that are making an effort
• horses who are not handling the bias of the racing surface

Based on years of experience, watching thousands of races and statistical analysis, it seems there's about 20% - 30% of the horses that try to win in any given race. Another 30% - 40% or so, give a halfhearted attempt but just don't have the ability to handle the competition. The remaining horses at just about any racetrack, anywhere, appear that they don't want to be in racing at all.

The last group is guaranteed to drain your bank roll, sight handicapping can help you avoid this predicament. You have to be sure you avoid betting this group or you will quickly go broke, yet uninformed betters, by the thousands, do it consistently.

Sight Handicapping Horse Races for Profitable Picks

To start cashing more winning tickets quickly, you must be able to spot horses that have been kept from winning due to bad trips, bad rides, or a bias in track conditions that worked against them. As you start watching races and looking for horses that it made an effort but got in trouble, had bad rides etc. you will quickly improve your ability to spot these winning situations and capitalizing on the potential.

Live Internet feeds of races from most of the major tracks makes it possible to view as many races as you can find the time to watch. It is also possible to find past performance videos of the major races on the Internet.

Pay attention to the Daily Racing Form's comments, looking for statements such as game try, gave best, good try, bid stretch, outside bid, finished well etc. they will provide you with profitable opportunities at surprising odds.

By reading over results charts from the major racetracks and major races you can search for comments that would indicate a good effort or trouble. Then by simply clicking on a link you can watch the race and judge for yourself whether it appears some sort of trouble kept them from winning and deciding of they will be a viable contender in their next start.

A horse who's stuck in the middle of the pack race after race and then gets in trouble will probably come back and run another lackluster race finishing in the middle of the pack. But, when you find a horse that has been in contention, maybe won a few races, who always seems to be in the hunt and then shows up with a stumbled start, block turn, six wide turn, etc. you've spotted a potential payday horse to watch.

The only way to spot that horses that might have won if it weren't for the trouble they experienced and horses that probably won't win no matter what happens, is to look for these situations as you watch races live or on video and gain experience, it's worth the effort, it wont take long until you're cashing more and larger winning tickets.