handicapping

Scott Anderson Romps in Player’s Choice

Scott Anderson Romps in Player’s Choice

Scott Anderson Romps in Player's ChoiceHBPA President and longtime owner has been playing horses for three decades By G.S. Thompson Third-generation horseplayer and Manitoba HBPA president Scott Anderson won the Player's Choice Handicapping Tournament last Saturday by...

AI Handicaps the Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park

AI Handicaps the Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park

By G.S. Thompson Last week the AI picked against the favourite and its choices actually ran decent. That being said, they tried everything to beat the favourite in that race and she still overcame with a gutsy stretch run to win. This week we’ll test the AI on the Ft....

AI Handicaps the Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park

AI Handicaps the Le Prevoyante at Woodbine

By G.S. Thompson Well, the AI had all three horses last week in the Cigar Mile, but in the wrong order. Close but no...Cigar! We got our money back with a win-place bet on Mullikin, who finished second to Locked, and we also got the triactor, but we really wanted...

AI Handicaps the Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park

AI Handicaps the Cigar Mile

By G.S. Thompson The AI picked Formidable Man ($12.00) to win the 9th race at Del Mar last Saturday, so let’s see what it can do this week! We used a slightly different approach for this week’s analysis, feeding it the past performances for the Cigar Mile this...

AI Handicaps the Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park

Handicapping: Fun With Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By G.S. Thompson Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get AI to do all the heavy lifting when you’re handicapping the races? AI is getting smarter by the second, and it can now read PDFs of Past Performances. It also understands most if not all basic handicapping...

How to Read the Past Performances – Part 2

Night School Handicapping Video courtesy of Jeremy Plonk and his Handicapping Team at HorsePlayerNow.com  Part 2 of an extensive lesson on how to read the Past Performances by Joe Kristufek In Part 2 of How to Read the Past Performances, Joe Kristufec goes over the...

Handicapping is more than just picking winners

Handicapping is more than just picking winners

by Rob The process of wagering on a horse race in the modern era of gambling is much more complicated than "which horse do I like?" In outdated systems all you had to do was pick a horse. Now it takes a firm understanding of not only picking winners, but also on...

Workouts: Transferring morning glory to the Winner’s Circle

by Rob Using workouts in your handicapping can help you to spot three types of horses ready to run well: first time starters, horses coming off a freshening and stakes horses. First time starters are working themselves into shape to run their first race, horses coming...