It’s great fun watching two television betting shows on my satellite network as I get to know which horse betting angles should not be pursued.

I’m frequently provided with assorted betting systems when listeners send me emails reflecting their ideas. It was one afternoon, I remember, when co-hosts explained to viewers that it would be more to their advantage to throw away their choices when a horse was a lock and was expressed by an assumed specialist.

When a person’s choice loses, I consider that it reflected their handicap competence, and nothing beyond that. In my opinion, by not placing a wager on the best picks you can’t succeed.

Throwing out horses not having a chance and throwing away your best choice, is according to one viewer, his method. Is this correct or incorrect?

On throwing away your primary pick, does not benefit you system of handicapping. I suggest that if you experience a bad run, then endeavor to follow the following novel method:  

* Stop placing bets for a while and make a note of things. Look out for horses that have a good finish, in spite of a problematic course, and keep tabs on them for a later occasion.     

* Change your method of handicapping. Perhaps it’s the track bias you’ve been avoiding. Perhaps you have been betting on an excess of favorites and they are not coming up successfully. Perhaps the winners are the ones you’ve dropped as they appeared to you as not rational competitors.

* Persuading myself not to play the best choice of my preference. It makes no sense. If the horse still looks great or not quarrelsome I hold on to it.

Over the course of time I’ve frequently listened to people at racetracks say this:

 ‘That was the horse I should have put my money on.’

‘ I was under the impression that was the one you liked.’

‘I used to, but I decided to choose the other horse.’

*When on a lucky streak, putting my wager on more races than I handicapped. I’m to blame for betting on a race or several races I didn’t intend to, but the bets were not large.

It’s not pleasant returning through unplanned handicapping the money I made by thinking out the picks.

For various reasons you should change your selection, such as when you have handicapped for a speedy course and it’s the rainy season. Again, on removing races from the turf, a number of picks are deleted and jockey substitution has taken place.

I remember on one afternoon, an assumed professional spoke on television expounding on a hundred years required to grow a first class turf course, quoting a number of old tracks such as Saratoga.

The truth is that Hialeah, unopened until 1925, was considered as one of the best turf courses throughout the globe and it stayed this way in South Florida until it was closed a few years back. Track conditions are dependent a lot on climate as well as on the latest state of the art maintenance too. 

A lot of players, I get to hear about, moan that between live races there’s too much of a time gap. The fact, I like that as I get the chance to make changes and go over my selections.

A scratch enables you to add a horse you weren’t sure of if you placing an exotic wager.

A horse that can do fine off track is easily understood. Therefore, it should take only a brief time to work out an off turf contest because scratches are frequently plentiful.  

It’s paramount to keep your mind on the manner a specific track plays.

On the assumption that front-runners, for instance, are triumphing in early races, and assuming that you’ve place bets on stalkers and closers, you may wish to add lawful speed horses in your wagers.