Win At The Dog Track By Learning One Little Secret

There are lots of odds at the track. There’s the “morning line” that the newspaper handicapper or one of the track’s tip sheet writers pick. Then there are the odds at the bottom of the program which usually come from the racing secretary or another track official. But those aren’t the most important odds.

The most important odds are the ones you come up with, yourself, on each dog in a race. If you’re not doing that, you’re leaving lots of money on the table. It’s not hard if you’re a regular bettor who goes to the races a good part of the time.

All you have to do is figure out how often a dog will win the type of race its in. If it wins that type of race one out of ten times, then its odds should be at 10-1. If it comes in one out of 3 times, then the odds should be 3-1. It’s not rocket science. But it does take some learning.

First of all, you have to have some idea of how the dog USUALLY does in the kind of race its in today. That means you either have to go back over your programs to see how it did or have a good memory. Or both. It’s hard, at first, to gauge how dogs will do to the point where you can predict what their odds should be.

But after you’ve done it for awhile, keeping track of your successes and failures on your programs on in a notebook, you’ll get better at it. There will come a day when you’ll see a dog in a B race and know that this dog can win this type of race about one out of every six races, so you know you’re going to bet it if it’s at 6-1 or higher odds.

You also know that it’s not a good bet at 3-1 which is why you won’t be tearing up a ticket when it goes off at 9-5 and fails to run in the money. You knew its percentage of winning this kind of race wasn’t good enough to warrant a 9-5 bet.

That’s it. Just sharpen your judgment and keep track of how well you’re doing and you’ll be ahead of 99% of the people at the track, who don’t do that. They only go by the odds on the board, while you go by the odds that really matter – percentage predictions by type of race.