I'm glad you enjoyed, Gbjorklu. It's good to find a fellow horseplayer on the forums. And thank you for your recommendation. I personally am using a handicapping program that's insanely good. It rates the horses on a weighted point system, it tells you if the trainer is also the owner, it identifies horses in turf races that have a turf sire and/or dam, and tracks the bias in real time, separately for dirt and turf races. The program is being updated and improved with new statistical data that is track-specific. The programmer is retiring, and going to play horses full-time. To prevent having too many people using this program and diluting the pools, it is no longer for sale to the public.
I also have become friends with the developer of the program, and his wife. I have learned a lot from them, which has influenced my play considerably. While my playing style is based on using the program, it also is flexible enough to include those in-the-moment opportunities that can lead to monster payoffs. Consider this example from last Sunday:
![[Image: Griff_zpsec23ce95.jpg]](http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y428/marginofair/Wins/Griff_zpsec23ce95.jpg)
I often log in to my betting account and look at races (not using the program) to practice seeing what I can see. I chanced upon this race at Monmouth, a Maiden Special Weight for two-year-olds (generally, I don't bet races for two-year-olds.) The horse looked good (I have learned a lot about horses' body language from my friends/mentors,) he was ridden by a top jockey, and the jockey gave him a good pre-race warm-up. I checked Equibase, and the horse was owned by the breeder, and it was a MSW race, not a claimer, so the horse couldn't get claimed. I figured it was worth a $2 win/place bet, and I netted a little over $35 for my trouble. Plus, since the horse ran 6 furlongs in 1:11 and change, I put him in my stable alert to check him out in his next start.
In another example, I was doing the same thing, just looking at some races, not necessarily intending to bet. I was looking at a track (don't remember which one,) and it was the eighth race on the card. I looked back over that day's winners, and every race, except the first, had been won by the horse breaking from the #2 post position. Well, the #2 horse in this race was going off at crazy high odds. Once again, I said heck, it's worth a $2 win/place bet. After battling down the stretch, the #2 was edged out by the favorite, the #3. I thought, oh well, the place payout should repay my bet several times over at least. But wait! There was an objection! The replay clearly showed the #3 horse cutting in front of the #2 horse (smart jock on the #3, he knew the two lane was the place to be!) The objection was ruled in favor of my horse, the #2 (I think it's the only inquiry/objection that has ever been decided in favor of my horse!) My little $2 win/place bet turned into $168. And I thought, there's no way the payout should be this high if even a small percentage of people had noticed what I had noticed, and put a couple of bucks on the #2.
I think a couple of psychological glitches are what's really holding me back from turning pro. I'm already debt-free, and I have plenty of risk capital. Oddly enough, one of my problems is the inability to really pound a wager where it's warranted. A $5 win/place bet in the example above would have been well within reason, but I just couldn't pull the trigger. Since Shannon has indicated he might have a window to build some custom subliminals soon, I have thrown my hat into the ring with Become A Successful Pro Horseplayer. Check it out and see what you think. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to add them in that thread. I told Shannon that I didn't mind if he offered my custom in the store at the regular price. Maybe you would be interested in it also.
I also have become friends with the developer of the program, and his wife. I have learned a lot from them, which has influenced my play considerably. While my playing style is based on using the program, it also is flexible enough to include those in-the-moment opportunities that can lead to monster payoffs. Consider this example from last Sunday:
![[Image: Griff_zpsec23ce95.jpg]](http://s1274.photobucket.com/user/marginofair/media/Wins/Griff_zpsec23ce95.jpg.html)
I often log in to my betting account and look at races (not using the program) to practice seeing what I can see. I chanced upon this race at Monmouth, a Maiden Special Weight for two-year-olds (generally, I don't bet races for two-year-olds.) The horse looked good (I have learned a lot about horses' body language from my friends/mentors,) he was ridden by a top jockey, and the jockey gave him a good pre-race warm-up. I checked Equibase, and the horse was owned by the breeder, and it was a MSW race, not a claimer, so the horse couldn't get claimed. I figured it was worth a $2 win/place bet, and I netted a little over $35 for my trouble. Plus, since the horse ran 6 furlongs in 1:11 and change, I put him in my stable alert to check him out in his next start.
In another example, I was doing the same thing, just looking at some races, not necessarily intending to bet. I was looking at a track (don't remember which one,) and it was the eighth race on the card. I looked back over that day's winners, and every race, except the first, had been won by the horse breaking from the #2 post position. Well, the #2 horse in this race was going off at crazy high odds. Once again, I said heck, it's worth a $2 win/place bet. After battling down the stretch, the #2 was edged out by the favorite, the #3. I thought, oh well, the place payout should repay my bet several times over at least. But wait! There was an objection! The replay clearly showed the #3 horse cutting in front of the #2 horse (smart jock on the #3, he knew the two lane was the place to be!) The objection was ruled in favor of my horse, the #2 (I think it's the only inquiry/objection that has ever been decided in favor of my horse!) My little $2 win/place bet turned into $168. And I thought, there's no way the payout should be this high if even a small percentage of people had noticed what I had noticed, and put a couple of bucks on the #2.
I think a couple of psychological glitches are what's really holding me back from turning pro. I'm already debt-free, and I have plenty of risk capital. Oddly enough, one of my problems is the inability to really pound a wager where it's warranted. A $5 win/place bet in the example above would have been well within reason, but I just couldn't pull the trigger. Since Shannon has indicated he might have a window to build some custom subliminals soon, I have thrown my hat into the ring with Become A Successful Pro Horseplayer. Check it out and see what you think. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to add them in that thread. I told Shannon that I didn't mind if he offered my custom in the store at the regular price. Maybe you would be interested in it also.
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