13/12/2002 edition

Make Winning Bets Using
Horse Profiles

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Profit through an expert knowledge of individual horses
By Daniel O’Sullivan, The Form-Pro

Developing Your Horse Profiles Further

With a base profile completed you already have the makings of your own powerful information source. You will have sifted through the masses of data available and creatively developed it into a concise yet comprehensive summary that tells you exactly what you should know about a horse.

However, the true power of your Horse Profile comes when you develop it further to build up more detailed knowledge. The first and most important aspect of this is to watch the horse when it races.

Your aim should be to understand the true merit of the horse’s performance as distinct from what the result’s page or media reports might say. To do this, examine the following points:

a. How suitable was the class and other race conditions for the horse (according to your base profile)?

b. What type of run did the horse have? Was it mentioned in the Stewards’ Reports?

c. How did the horse respond when pressured by the jockey and how did it finish off its race?

d. Overall, did the horse perform at a level below, equal to or above its previous best? Why?

e. What does this run imply for the future?

Another useful habit is to be attentive to all avenues that might provide information about the horse.

Pay particular attention to what the jockey and trainer say. Arguably they know the horse best and quite often give information that helps explain a good or bad performance, the conditions it is best suited by and plans for the future.

A word of warning: you need to develop a sense for what constitutes genuine and useful information about a horse and what is simply a tired old interview or story full of clichés. The key point is that you should always be on the lookout for information that will be of value when you next consider that horse in a race.
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Handicapping tips - weight and class
Money talks - Randwick betting tips from the track
Money talks - Sandown betting tips from the track
Money talks - Doomben betting tips from the track
Money talks - Victoria Park betting tips from the track
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