Greyhound Dog Racing Tips.
Many years ago, when computers first began to come onto the scene, a group of math wizards developed a system of picking trifectas using only numbers. Known as "The Golden Key" or the Twenty-Three Twenty-Three One Formula, the system was ingenious.
Without using a program... With NO handicapping whatsoever... Without even knowing the first thing about dog racing or even going to a track, these geniuses figured out how to hit trifectas at one track in the country time after time. How did they do it?
They used a computer to "crunch" the results of thousands of races until it "told them" that the only factor that mattered at that track was "time". Nothing else had any effect on the outcome of the races. Of course, there was a secret formula you had to use to bet the dogs using time, which was where the Twenty-Three Twenty-Three One came in.
Their printouts proved that if you bet the second fastest dog to win and place, the third fastest dog to win and place, and the first fastest dog to show, you'd hit trifectas that would pay almost 42% more than you bet, if you played every race on every program for the season.
Who wouldn't love to get an amazing $1.42 back for every $1 they bet? I know I sure would. Except that if you think about it, there were a few problems with this method. For one thing, who could bet every race on every program for a whole season? I couldn't. I know that things would happen and I'd miss some programs and screw up my profit.
And then there's the fact that all of the "proof" of this method was in the past, like most handicapping methods' proof is. I've said it before and I'll say it again, just because something HAS happened doesn't mean that it WILL happen again or that it will happen consistently.
It's good to check out any system on paper, which will give you an indication of whether it's likely to pan out. However, it's not a good idea to base any system on just one factor like time. It just doesn't make sense.
Unfortunately, that's what the buyers of this system found out when they tried to use the system at their track and even at the track where it had "proven" itself to work. For some unknown reason, the Golden Key System never seemed to pay off for the poor suckers who bought it because they believed the hype that the computer geeks put out about it.
The group who came up with it made a bundle and then moved onto other endeavors and the Golden Key System slowly faded from the scene. Every once in awhile, it resurfaces and makes some quick money for its seller and then disappears. Now, very few people even remember which track it was supposed to have worked at. Since the track is out of business, it wouldn't do them any good, even if the system DID work.
This and other "gimmick" systems are proof that it's impossible to handicap dog races using only one factor and no "real" handicapping skill. There are systems that work, but unlike The Golden Key, they take more than one factor into consideration and demand that the user at least know basic handicapping skills.
Greyhound Dog Racing.