Greyhound Dog Racing Tips.
There's usually a hot kennel at any dog track. Their dogs are burning up the track by winning more than their share of races. Sometimes, they'll win several of the fifteen races on the program, one right after the other. You go over your program and look at your picks and wonder why you didn't see it before you bet the other kennels. Geez, if you'd bet on dogs from HotBox kennel, you'd have cleaned up.
Or would you? Sure, a bunch of HotBox's dogs came in first and second. And, yes, the kennel does seem to be on a winning streak. But before you go back to the track determined to bet on only that kennel's dogs, let's think this over.
No matter how hot a kennel is, it's not going to have a winner in every race. Statistically, it might have a 30% win average, which is good. But that means that its dogs DON'T win 7 out of 10 races. And when they do win, they're often favorites at low odds, so they don't pay enough to cover the times they don't win.
Now I'm not saying you shouldn't keep track of the kennel standings, especially the ones that aren't doing as well. I think it's more important to notice a kennel that might have problems with sickness or poor quality dogs or maybe they've just wormed all their dogs which can affect their racing performance significantly. But I don't obsess over it. It's not a major consideration for me when I handicap the dogs.
My main considerations are the same no matter which kennel the dog comes from.� Class, Post Position Preference, Running Style and Pace of the race are my main considerations. If the dog that has the best of all of the above is from a hot kennel, that's all the better, although it might lower the odds and make it pay less if it wins. Still, you have to play them the way you handicap them.
Kennels have streaks, just like dogs and bettors do. Trying to pick winners on the basis of kennel standings just doesn't pay. One thing that does pay is picking a good handicapping method or system.
Greyhound Dog Racing.