Greyhound Dog Racing Tips.
Most dog track programs have ten races, at least. Unless you're a superb handicapper, and I haven't met one yet, there's no way you can bet every race and make a profit.
But, how do you decide which races to bet and which to lay off? And when you do pick your races, how do you pick the dogs to bet in those races?
Well, the two things are so intertwined that it's impossible to do one without considering the other. In other words, picking the right race involves picking the right dog and vice versa.
When you look at the races for the first time, you probably get an overall idea of whether the race is going to be easy, medium or hard to handicap. That's the first step to choosing the right race. But when you go over the races for the second time, that's when the right dog is the key to which races you'll play and which races you'll sit out.
The overview of the race gives you a very quick snapshot of all the dogs together. Because you're just scanning the program, you're not looking at the details of each dogs' lines. You're just getting an impression of whether the dogs will be easy enough to handicap so that you can get four or less to bet on.
Once you've figured out which races you can handicap, then you can figure out which dogs, in those races, stand out from the other dogs and why. Anyone who has been handicapping for any length of time will tell you that there are many races where you can tell in a matter of a couple of minutes whether it's "handicappable" or not.
Once in awhile, you'll run across a race that takes a little more time to decipher, but most are pretty easy to classify as easy or hard to handicap. There's something about the makeup of most races that let you see at first or second glance how hard it will be to pick dogs that are obviously better than the other dogs.
In some races, the dogs are so evenly matched that you can't see why any one of them would beat the others. In other races, there are two or three dogs that are so inferior for some reason, that you wonder why they're even in the race. The first type of race is a good one to sit out, while the second type is relatively easy to handicap.
So, when it comes to picking races and dogs, give the program a quick overview to find races and then delve deeper into each of them to pick dogs. While it may seem like you pick the races first and then the dogs, it's a little more complicated than that. After all, the races ARE the dogs and the dogs ARE the race.
Greyhound Dog Racing.