Many of the emails that we receive at EZ Horse Betting are concerned with improving handicapping skills. How do I become a better handicapper? This is what many people want to know. This guide brings together practical habits for improving race analysis, ticket construction and post-race review. Better process does not guarantee more winners or…
There will come a time in your handicapping of horse races that you will need to evolve and advance your knowledge. One way that you can do this is by learning more about horse racing probabilities. What things tend to happen more than others in horse racing? Studying the evidence can improve how you judge…
Horse racing betting is a sport that offers an almost infinite variety of bets. In almost every case handicappers are choosing horses to win. There are also a few betting platforms which allow laying horses. What is laying horses? It is essentially betting on horses to lose. Okay, laying horses is a little more complicated…
Each year the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships determine the best horses in many different classes. Of the thousands of race horses that compete each year at tracks all over the world, a limited field in each Championship division will reach the starting gates of the Breeders’ Cup. How are these horses chosen? The Win…
Pick 4 objective: identify four consecutive winners while keeping the number of combinations affordable. More coverage increases ticket cost; it does not improve the quality of the underlying opinions. The Pick 4 is a horse racing bet that can pay healthy rewards. It is also a bet that can be affordable when you use these…
At EZHorseBetting we are often asked how one goes about becoming a handicapper of horse racing. Learning how to become a handicapper involves many elements. You can learn the basics in a short time, but mastering the art takes patience. If you want to become a successful handicapper, here are the first steps that you…
A mandatory payout in horse racing is a scheduled force-out of money that would otherwise remain in a carryover or jackpot pool. On the mandatory day, the governing rules require the distributable pool to be paid rather than carrying the designated balance forward again. Mandatory payouts are common in multi-race wagers such as jackpot Pick…
The Breeders’ Cup Fix Six scandal concerned a fraudulent wagering record, not evidence that six races had predetermined sporting results. In the 2002 Pick 6, a compromised ticket threatened the share of the pool due to legitimate customers. Keeping race integrity separate from tote-system integrity is essential to understanding the case. The episode occurred at…
Horse betting involves uncertainty and a cost built into the pool through takeout. Even careful bettors can lose. These five common decision problems can add avoidable losses; they are not a ranking established by a study, and correcting them does not guarantee a profit. Diagnose the decision, not just the result For each bet, record…
A methodical approach can improve how you assess and record bets, but it does not guarantee high returns or steady income. You don’t have to be a full-time gambler to have the right mindset for betting. You can study disciplined methods without assuming they will increase your profits at an online racebook. Here is a…
