thoroughbred parts
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/17/2010 05:33 pm by admin
Many years ago men and women who learned handicapping basics from harness racing often went on to become good thoroughbred handicappers. The reason for that was often that harness handicappers understand pace very well and break a race into quarters. A one mile harness dash is looked at in neat quarters that are timed.
This arrangement helps a harness race handicapper to gauge a horse’s ability and energy during a race. Seeing a horse that raced a good first three quarters of a race who manages a decent last quarter while covering more ground in the two path, helps a harness racing handicapper to rate the horse in its next race.
Many people watch a thoroughbred race and think that the horses are running faster in the home stretch than they did at the beginning of the race. That is not usually the case. Horses, especially thoroughbreds, usually run faster in the early stages of the race. If you want to understand pace and how each horse will fare in a race, it might be a good idea to take a lesson from harness horse handicappers and estimate each runner’s ability in each of the parts of a race.
For instance, in a six furlong race, you can break it down into three quarters. The first two furlongs are the first quarter, the next two are the second quarter and the final quarter is the last two furlongs. Next, based on past performances in similar situations, estimate how fast each horse will run the first and second quarters and where that will place the horse as it enters the final leg of the race.
Now estimate each horse’s final quarter. The results may surprise you and place horses in the trifecta that you didn’t think would have a chance to be in the top three finishers. While thoroughbreds run and are less controlled in their race than Standardbred, the amount of energy available and the expenditure in each quarter will ultimately determine where the horse finishes in the race.
The most consistent horse racing systems have to have the basics and a handicapper must understand the basics. I have been around horse racing for 50 years including as an owner. Without the basics the rest is not going to do any good. If you want to learn how a horse owner and insider handicaps just go to http://williewins.homestead.com/truecb.html and get the truth.
Bill Peterson is a former horse race owner and professional handicapper. He comes from a horse race handicapping family and as he puts it, “Horse Racing is in my blood.” To see all Bill’s horse racing material go to http://williewins.homestead.com/handicappingstore.html, Bill’s handicapping store.
10 yrs 15.1 hh Bay Thoroughbred – Norfolk
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