Horse Racing - Picking The Longshot Articles

Horse Racing - Picking The Longshot

By: Richard Bleuze

Horse Racing - Picking The Longshot

A few key factors to keep in mind when picking a longshot are:

Running styles, if I have a horse that comes from off the pace in a race filled with speedy front runners who will be battling on the lead, I will give him a shot at big odds on style alone.

A hot jockey on a longshot is good, even if the horses form is not that great, a jockey on a roll has a way of getting a horse to run beyond its form.

Off track conditions, like a muddy track, often helps a longshot that prefers the track condition beat a favorite who does not do well in the track condition.

Look at a horses form, see if your horse has a tendency to run good at big odds.

A horse coming off a long layoff could come back fit and ready, check the trainer of the horse and see how he/she performs with horses coming back from long layoffs.

Equipment changes like the addition of blinkers, or the addition of Lasix can really improve a horse.

A top trainer or jockey on a longshot is good, can often bring in huge paying longshots time after time, especially in big events.

Big events, like major stakes races are beautiful for picking longshots, because every horse wants to win, and every jockey and trainer has a strategy for winning the race.

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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.