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You Can Beat A Horse Race

By: Richard Bleuze

You Can Beat A Horse Race

At Horse Betting Professor they prefer to make vertical bets as opposed to horizontal bets. What the heck does a vertical vs. a horizontal bet mean? Well, I’m glad you asked …

Well, Vertical bets are those that go from one race to the next. For example, a Daily Double is a type of wager calling for the selection of winners of two consecutive races. A Pick 3 is a wager calling for the selection of the winners of three consecutive races. A Pick 4 and Pick 6 are exactly what they sound like.

Horizontal bets, on the other hand, are bets like the trifectas and superfectas. A trifecta is a wager picking the first three finishers of one race in exact order while a superfecta is picking the first 4 finishers of one race in exact order.

Now if you have a system that allows you to knock out 5 of the 8 horses running right off the bat, and leaves you with only 2-4 horses that have a legitimate chance to win the race, and you can do this every race, then betting Pick 3’s and the like is a no-brainer. A high percentage of the time ONE of your horses is going to win the race.

However, you can bet a trifecta and be oh so close, yet you lose most of the time. Maybe you can hit a trifecta once in awhile in a horse race, but it is unlikely, dare I say impossible, to pick the top 3 or 4 horses race after race.

I guess it all comes down to whether or not you like money and cashing in tickets, or if you want to be the guy walking around muttering, “I coulda, shoulda, woulda …” as you tear up your tickets and thus throw away your money.

I know which kind of guy I am.

The great thing is most tracks now offer rolling Daily Doubles, Pick 3’s and Pick 4’s. They used to only be offered on certain races like the last three races of the day. The horse bettor's optimum betting situation is when they find themselves in a Rolling Pick 3 where the horse bettor can beat the favorite in 2 out of the 3 races. That is when the horse bettor gets optimum value on their investment and you are talking about HUGE payoffs.

The horse betting system offered by Rich Allen goes into greater detail about the value of vertical bets and I also reveal many other horse racing tips. Head over to http://3206w76230.hbprof.hop.clickbank.net to learn more.

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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.