non serious contenders horses

How to Eliminate Non Serious Contenders - A Beautiful Short Write Up by S C Sharma

There is a saying -  Enter the water if you know swimming.  Similarly crossing the road at peak traffic is always risky, when you have alternate facility of subway/ safe passage to cross the road. If a person knowingly do above such things and invite troubles than nobody can help and rescue such persons.

There is only one way in racing to win by hard working and enriching the knowledge of profitable techniques and strategies and success cannot be a walkover unless you work hard to achieve.  Over dependency on luck, instead of proper working and undue belief in numerology and astrology  won’t yield successful results  always and will not help much in long run, until you decides to take good care and value your investment of time and money.  There are over a dozen ways to lose and search for excuses and blame game.

Horse racing is based on a system of handicapping and analysing in which  non serious contenders make the size of the field big and confuse the horseplayers. How to eliminate these non serious contenders, participating in most of the races? Pay little attention on the following points and eliminate non serious contenders.

1) Horses not seen on track for many days or not regular at track work.

2) Horses running after long lay offs or running after a gap of more than eight weeks. ( Exception classic horses and runners of graded races )

3) Horses troublesome at gates, often rears up badly, take slow or awkward jumps or drifting, shifting under pressure or in habit of going wide in straight.

4) Blood vessel broken horses, frequently suffering training set back horses or under long treatment horses.  Pay attention to race day and veterinary reports for drugs positive or pending enquiry matters related to running and riding.

5) Horses entered over unsuitable distance. Change in distance from sprint distance to long distance or from long distance to sprint distance.

6) Running with classic contenders or in terms races where horse is disadvantageouly placed as per age, weight or points rating wise.

7) Paddock looks not encouraging or not good such as dullness, wetting or sweating, no skin/coat shinning, bandages in front legs, tossing up head frequently up and down or side to side, pinning back ears, stamping of feet, rearing up badly and not allowing the jockey to sit etc.,

8) More than 15 to 20 kg difference in body weight of the horse   compare with best performance -run- weight of past few runs.

9) Age group matters most in sprint races when running with youngster age group horses. Older age horses should run in their own age group, more so over running in short distance races.

10) If the rating of jockey and trainer is far below, less than five percent.

11) Avoid no whip jockeys mounts in middle and long distance races.Speedy horses can win over short distance races without whip.

12) Avoid horses ran three times and unplaced over the same distance and again preferred to run for same distance without change in equipment and racing centre.

These are some important points to eliminate non serious contenders from actual race. There may be some exceptions but normally and by and large this theory works well and helps a lot in study, analysing and arriving at right fruitful conclusions for selecting a horse for betting.

Wishing everyone enjoyable and profitable racing