When your car has a funny noise and pulls to the right, you take it down to the local garage and have them put it up on the lift. You don’t usually get under it yourself to take a look.
When your roof needs shingling or your septic tank needs pumping, you call someone who knows what they’re doing. Well, it’s the same thing with greyhound handicapping.
Unless you’re very, very good at picking dogs, it’s best to let a specialist write you a system that picks winners. Why is that?
A specialist is someone who spends much more time and effort than the casual bettor can spend on learning the craft of predicting which dogs are contenders. Most bettors – who have more in their lives than just going to the greyhound track – don’t have the time and can’t put in the effort.
You can’t hang around the track for every performance, shmoozing with the dog trainers and owners, watching the schooling races, and following the dogs until you know all their names. You probably have a home, a family, a job in the outside world that takes up too much of your time to allow for long hours at the track.
Then there are the hours the professional handicapper puts in after the track closes. Hours of poring over programs and results, looking for patterns and secrets that are very hard to see. As a matter of fact, 90% of the bettors DON’T see them, which is why they lose.
Unlike the average bettor, the specialist doesn’t mind all the boring, tedious work of going over and over the same data until they can figure out why some dogs come in and some don’t. Most of us would give up before we were halfway through, but the specialist doesn’t.
They keep going until they can predict with a reasonable degree of accuracy which dogs – who may not look like it -are contenders and which dogs – who may look great – are not going to come in, even though they may be favorites.
It’s the specialist who finds the longshot that wins at 12-1. It’s the specialist who suddenly understands why a certain pattern predicts when a dog who has dropped down will come in. And which pattern predicts that it won’t.
And it’s the specialist who has the ability to write all of this down and turn it into a greyhound handicapping system that the average bettor can use along with his or her own handicapping skills, to do much, much better at the dog track.
