Two golden rules of horse racing and betting

Almost all human endeavors have a golden rule that the participants must learn in order to be successful. Disabled horse breeds are no exception. There are some truths to the game that every horse player will eventually discover, often from experience. While knowing the golden rules may not make you successful, not knowing the golden rules will almost always contribute to your failure.

There are many ways to arrive at a betting horse or exotic combination, however the golden rules are immutable. They don’t change no matter how many races you play or what type of race you play. Off track or fast track, they don’t change. There are times when you will hate them and other times when you will trust them. Don’t take them personally. They were true before you were born and when you have cashed in your final ticket they will still be strong.

The first rule is that nothing works all the time. By that I mean that any angle you come up with or discover will work some of the time, but nothing will work all of the time. There are sad stories of a horse player who discovers an angle and plays it on paper for a long time before finally taking the plunge and betting on that angle. He builds trust, it seems like he always makes money for her, so he finally mortgages the farm business and puts it all into his new money doing wonders only for the universe to switch and stop working.

You pour more and more sure that you will start working again and earn money and guess what? That laughing sound you hear is that the god is mocking the hapless player because he didn’t believe it when he read that almost anything will work sometime, but nothing works all the time.

Rule two is value and all that goes with it when it comes to finding bets. Good riders don’t look for good horses, they look for good bets and in my experience they are hard to find. What makes a good bet? Long-term benefit is the answer. It is a racing and betting scenario that, when played many times, will return the punter’s original investment along with a profit. Some call it ROI. Because things are always changing on the track, those profitable scenarios come and go, which brings us back to rule number one.

BE creative and always keep an open mind. Keep looking for the next good angle and don’t bet a dead horse when the universe hits the “off” switch and the angle goes south, so to speak. Know when to play it and when to let it go.