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Taking Advantage of a Mandatory Payout for Jackpot Pick 6

Trying to hit a Jackpot Pick 6 is a nearly impossible task for most handicappers.

Hitting six winners is a formidable enough challenge, but when you hope to have the lone winning ticket so you can take home a treasure chest of cash, that quest for a one-in-a-million ticket takes the odds of hitting the wager into a different stratosphere. Unless, of course, you have an extremely lucky birthdate or some other important six-figure number in your life.

Finding Good Betting Value Using the ‘Welcome Back’ Angle

You’re showing your age if you remember John Travolta as high school joker Vinnie "Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose" Barbarino before he became the disco dandy Tony Manero in “Saturday Night Fever.”

The Value of Handicapping Early and Creating a Game Plan

It’s understandable why racing fans would enjoy a day like Saturday, Sept. 7 at Belmont Park.

There was an 11-race card with three stakes, each of them worth at least $300,000 and one with a value of $1 million, contested on a bright, sunny afternoon with ideal early September weather conditions.

Who needs college football, right?

Explaining ‘Main Track Only’ Horses, Evaluating Races Taken Off Turf

Whenever I write a new column for America’s Best Racing, I always keep in mind my core horse racing audience: newcomers.

It is not enough for the industry to market to newcomers. It also must educate and nurture them so as to elevate this group into becoming regular fans.

A topic I am going to touch upon today is a good one for newcomers. It’s actually one that is too often ignored even by hardcore handicappers. It’s “main track only” (MTO) horses that draw into races that come off the turf.

Beginner’s Guide to Trip Handicapping

Trip handicapping is a popular method for uncovering winners, yet it’s not as easy as it might seem. What might seem “bad” may simply be inconsequential.

Simply because a horse had an awful trip in his last race, that alone does not mean it is destined to cruise to the winner’s circle in his or her next start.

At the heart of the matter is finding those times when you have a strong conviction that a bad trip prevented a horse from finishing a spot or two better in a race and – and this is a very important “and” – that runner figures to atone in her next race.

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