Horse Racing Betting Tips
When In Doubt, Blame The Driver
I have a good friend: an aging, slow-moving, sour-old horseplayer who frequents OTB parlors and race tracks around the country. While he has a solid love of the sport of harness racing, he thinks all drivers are scoundrels and that every race is fixed. Every r ...
About Harness Racing: the Farrier
One of the most important friends of a racehorse is a farrier. The word farrier comes from the Latin word farrarius, or worker with iron. A blacksmith is probably the more recognized term for someone who works with metal. The farrier must be very knowledgeable ...
The History of the Racing Sulky
One of the first definitions of a sulky came in the mid-1800’s when the vehicle in question had heavy wooden wheels with broad-tires strong enough to be used over any kind of roads and a straight iron axle to which two elliptical springs were attached. D ...
The History of Hobbles and the Pacing Gait
Hobbles, wore by most of modern-day pacers, were first used in England over 300 years ago to gait saddle horses to the pace. When carriages appears under the late Tudors and early Stuart Kings, the pacing-rigged saddle horses disappeared. In North America non- ...
Bandages Used for Protection of Race Horses
Standardbred racehorses wear bandages both on and off the race track for a variety of reasons. They are used as a means of support and protection. Many trainers will use brace bandages on their trotter’s hind legs. Brace bandages offer light protection f ...
Proper Shoeing with Standardbred Racehorses
Just as with people, each Standardbred horse is a unique individual, coming in different sizes, shapes, and colors. And, like people, most all go about their daily functions, either training or racing, wearing some type of footwear. In Standardbred racing, the ...
What Is Harness Racing?
Harness racing is a form of horseracing in which the horses race in a specified gait – either the trot or the pace. They also usually pull two – wheeled carts called sulkies, although races to saddle are still occasionally conducted. In most jurisd ...
Tote Scoop 6
The Tote Scoop 6 is the horsey equivalent of the Lottery for the more discerning. Both offer gamblers the potential to win large sums for a very small amount wagered. Over 100,000 players every week are investing in the Tote Scoop6, in the belief that they are ...
Tote Placepot
Bookies have every side of the industry covered. Professional people are used to scrutinise all parts of the business. They employ statisticians and any number of other experts, who have been researching individual sporting events, every goal scored, every wic ...
Rules
Rules. You may not want to admit it, but it is always true in gambling that hard guidelines are a big boon in formulating strategies to defeat bookmakers. There are no quick ways to make cash from betting on horses. The bookies work continuously at prising mon ...
Ownership in Horse Racing
However, owning a horse is becoming a lot more popular with the Joe Paychecks of the world than ever. Horse lovers from all areas of society are involved in what people describe as ‘buying into optimism’, and budding ‘Aga Khans’ can joi ...
Horse Racing: Odds Setting
Profitable wagering isn’t just about choosing winners; it is also about deciding if it’s worth backing them at the odds you are given. The thing to ask yourself all the time is if you are getting good enough odds to justify parting with your hard e ...
Losing Horses
With exchanges popping up all over the place you can place a wager on just about anything – be it a greyhound, horse or team – to lose. All those useless nags you had bet on at Aintree on Saturday could have turned into wonderfully profitable, usel ...
On-course Betting
Regardless of the many wagering opportunities available to today’s gambler, there is still just one place to be if you’re want to make a profit on horse racing. On the course. Even for novices with horses it is difficult not to get into the excitem ...
Illustrious History
Horse racing betting presages a long illustrious history. This racing considerably depends upon the country where the races take place. Different countries have their different ways of offering different, distinct styles of racing. There are three different se ...