In the beginning there was no pace handicapping. Horse racing was without pace and void. Then there was Sartinian pace. It produced a high percentage of winners at the very good mutuels. People tried pace handicapping and saw that it was good. In the early days pace handicapping made life easy. Stories of the success […]
Losing to Winning the Great Leap | Chapter 4: Real Value
Chapter 4: Real Value Share A few months ago I read Steve Fierro’s book, The Four Quarters of Horse Investing. At first reading, it did not impress me much as something that I could use because I don’t normally make an odds line. I’d prefer to click the button and let HSH do it for […]
Losing to Winning – the Great Leap | Chapter 3: Taking Responsibility
Chapter 3: Taking Responsibility Share So, how do we take responsibility? Let me tell you how it worked for me. I began with a system to test, a notepad file and a commitment to handicap 50 races without making a single change from my “system.” As I handicapped each race, I logged the results in […]
Handicapping the Kentucky Derby
Handicapping the Kentucky Derby You are sitting in an airport bar, impatiently waiting for your flight to Louisville. You strike up a conversation with the guy sitting next to you. He says that he loves the Kentucky Derby. Never misses it. Watches it every year. On television. You decide that you might have a […]