“Jimmy The Hat” is a professional horseplayer who has a lot to say about “playing the ponies“. Fortunately, if you’re a new or beginning player, he’s not adverse to sharing his thoughts, ideas and advice about what it’s like to bet horses for a living with newbies. Like HorsePlayUSA.com, Jimmy…
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John Doyle is a horseplayer… a very serious one. In fact, it’s all he does. He makes his living betting on horse races. It’s an incredible livelihood to choose and one that’s definitely not for everyone. You probably keep and plan to keep your horse betting casual and just for…
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Race horse handicapping… what’s it really all about? Lots of numbers, statistics, data, predicting patterns and even more. If you’re a beginning handicapper or an experienced, seasoned bettor, you will… or have learned… that handicapping has a number of facets of past performance and race day issues to consider and…
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Produced in the 1990s… Sports commentator Gil Stratton talks with professional trainers and jockeys who explain how to “read” a horse to determine if it’s ready to win. Charlie Whittingham, Bill Mott, Wayne Lukas, Ron McAnally, Chris McCarron, Bill Shoemaker, Jack Van Berg, Laffit Pincay and others are featured. This…
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Andrew Beyer is an American expert on horse race betting who is the architect and chief devisor of what has become known as the Beyer Speed Figure… an essential element and tool used by many professionals in the science of thoroughbred horse race handicapping. In the early 1970s, while working…
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Andrew Beyer is an American expert on horse race betting who is the architect and chief devisor of what has become known as the Beyer Speed Figure… an essential element and tool used by many professionals in the science of thoroughbred horse race handicapping. In the early 1970s, while working…
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This 30-minute seminar describes how TrackMaster derives the Equibase Speed Figure and related ratings (Pace and Class) as well as TrackMaster Speed Ratings for Harness Racing. TrackMaster, an Equibase Company (the official database of thoroughbred horse racing) is your complete source for Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse and Harness Racing and for…
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Look over the shoulder of a successful, professional horse race handicapper and follow him in real time as he does his handicapping by evaluating and marking past performances. He explains what to look for and why, and also grades priorities and assigns values to statistics as they are reported in…
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Here’s another “How to read a racing program” video. It’s very wise to view all of these “how to” videos. This video is produced by the beautiful Turf Paradise race track near Phoenix, Arizona. All of these videos providing insight into reading and understanding PP programs approach the subject in…
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This will help you take advantage of the valuable information in the Past Performances (PP) race program. While this video explains the PP program for Emerald Downs race track in Washington state, other race tracks‘ PP programs are all very similar. This video runs 2:23 minutes. So, it’s one of…
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