Risk vs. Reward

Risk vs. Reward

For most players, sooner or later a “happy medium” in their wagering activities is found.  They establish for themselves and settle into a comfort zone where they feel alright with the level of risk versus potential for profit.

– A couple of posts back, we discussed a money management approach – progression betting – which is a higher risk, potentially higher reward way to approach the game.

Progression betting may be of interest to some few players with a tolerance for higher risk (and the bankroll to match), but I think it likely that the far larger proportion of race bettors are conservative in their nature and do not well tolerate (nor can afford) large losses.

– Then in the last post, we brought up the value of studying what the “old time” handicapping gurus had to show us and then applying it to modern racing.

This post will do both . . .

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Breeders Cup 2014

Breeders Cup 2014

Alright – Breeders Cup again!

Past Breeders Cups have invariably been the most interesting, challenging, and potentially lucrative race cards of the year – and this has been true each and every year since its inception in 1984. It’s a ‘lock’ that they’ll again live up to that billing this year.

Horse Racing Gold will be issuing our annual Breeders Cup Report as usual this year – and also as usual – we expect to again do very well.

The  HRG BC Report will smoke out some very good wagers for you – for win, exacta, and trifecta (and whichever of the other exotics you care to participate in) – it always does.  

What can you expect?  

As an example – following is a complete race-by-race recap of the bottom line results from last year . . .

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Foward To The Past

Foward To The Past

There are always sharp handicappers out there from whom we can learn and make our own game better. 

Many of those sharpies are ‘figures out of the past’ – players who have had their day in the sun and are now either deceased, or whose writings have generally been relegated to the dusty shelves of old handicapper’s (like me) libraries.  

But I have always been one to go back and study those guys – attempting to glean some golden nuggets that will apply to the game as we currently play it.  Though racing is continually evolving, the value of what these giant figures of the game’s past have to offer shouldn’t be overlooked.

Recently I was reminded of the great statistics compilation done by Fred Davis in the early seventies . . .

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