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Be A Winning Horse Bettor

By: Richard Bleuze

Be A Winning Horse Bettor

If you want to be a winning horse bettor, then I suggest that you make your own horse racing system after learning as much as you can about horseracing. Horseracing is a very popular sport and is synonymous with betting. If you want to be a winning horse bettor and to make a living at horse betting, then you must be serious at horseracing. You will find that many people bet purely for the fun of it; looking at the name of the horse, the name of the jockey, or even obtuse ideas such as the birthday of the jockey. Many of the top horse handicappers often have a horse betting system they follow religiously.

I would suggest that you start out using a winning horse betting system such as "How to 'Place Bet' on Favorites for a Living" created by Mohammed Ali.

Once you have used the system, then you should create your own winning horse betting system. A few of the essential things you should consider if you want to create a winning horse racing betting system are:

1) Distance
Distance is a crucial factor that you have to weigh up before you pick out the horse that you will place a bet on in a certain race.

2) Number of Runners
Often the chance of a horse winning is significantly influenced by the number of contenders in a race. In my opinion, the lower number of horses racing on a track is better for the horse bettor.

3) The Ground
In addition to the above, it is also important that you should take into consideration when betting on a horse the kind of ground in which the horse will run. In horseracing, the ground could be referred to a good, soft, heavy, firm or combinations of the above. As with distance, horses will have preferences as to the type of ground that they run on, and again it is your job as a winning horse bettor to know this.

4) When the Last Race was Run
Is the horse well rested, has the horse not raced in over 6 months, etc.

5) Getting Help From The Racing Papers
I would suggest that you review the racing papers since they are a gold mine of information for the winning horse bettor. In reviewing the horseracing papers you will find much information about each horse such as its racing record laid bare before you, the distance of the horse in its last race, the distance the last time that the horse placed in the money, the ground preferences of the horse, etc.

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Richard provides articles and information about horse betting on his website at http://www.bettingthehorsesonline.com

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Major racetracks

Major horse racetracks in the U.S. were opened

at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1853;
at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1863;
at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland in 1870;
at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, opened in 1870;
at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1875;
at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens in 1894;
at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1904;
at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City on Long Island, in 1905;
at Fairmount Park Racetrack in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois in 1925;
at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, near Miami in 1925;
at Arlington Park in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois in 1927;
at Santa Anita Park in the San Gabriel Valley community of Arcadia, California, in the Los Angeles area, in 1934;
at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky in 1936;
at Del Mar Racetrack in the San Diego suburb of Del Mar, California in 1937;
at Hollywood Park Racetrack in another Los Angeles suburb, Inglewood, California, in 1938.

Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States has its own Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Hall of Fame honors remarkable horses, jockeys, owners and trainers.