You can learn a lot about how things are shaking out on the day; this just might become your favourite handicapping angle.
Handicapping
You too can get hooked on superfectas by employing a few simple rules and investing a little pocket change.
If you had heeded Mike Welsch's advice and included Blue Stripe in your Breeders’ Cup Distaff ticket, you may have done the happy dance.
Here are a couple of rules to get you started on your Breeders' Cup picks, plus a blow-by-blow of Saturday's card.
Betting on stakes purse values pays off on Sunday - and offers a sneak peek into how to pick Breeders' Cup contenders.
A nw2L case in point at Woodbine on Saturday: when the horse looks logical, but most of the time the logical horse doesn’t win.
When horses running 'evenly' in past races or jumping up in class levels are worth a look to give you a healthy leg up in your wagers.
Computing fractions may be tough to wrap your brain around - but the horses with the best closing fractions comprised the trifecta.
While it's not possible to watch all the racing all the time (especially when beautiful weather is beckoning) Sunday at Woodbine was the wrong one to miss.
The truth is, the nw2L condition usually doesn’t lend itself to logic, so save your brainpower for other race conditions.
The handicapping 'rule' for big turf stakes events continues to apply, so use it to your advantage in upcoming races.
Historically, horses haven’t transitioned well from the synthetic surface at Woodbine to the dirt surface at Fort Erie.
While nothing works all the time, here are a few examples of horses with the highest speed numbers who won recently at this distance.
Assiniboia Downs player Les Buzzell — who never bets the favourites — has had legendary good fortune wagering on the ponies.
The best betting outcome is often not thanks to the winner; here's how to spot the serial 2nd through 4th-place finishers.
