does anyone know of any horse racing systems or betting theories that workl long term?
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I actually work for a horseacing info service and I can tell you honestly not to waste your money on get rich quick systems. Horseracing is a matter of educated guessing combined with luck, no one has a crystal ball no matter what they try to tell you. My advice is to go to a book store and pick up a good handicapping book and learn the fundamentals yourself. Tom Ainslie wrote a good one, it is older but is filled with basic fundamentals that hold true today. I give my expert picks on a daily basis and while I am pretty good at it and can give 75% winners on a daily basis (based on my best 3 picks per race), I am never 100%. Don't waste money on these schemes you see, get some education.
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Yes.  I suggest reading Nick Mordin's "Winning Without Thinking".  In his excellent book he discusses many systems, a lot for which he has provided proof of positive expectancy; and they are particularly suited to UK tracks.  I have found uses for several of them in the Stateside tracks as well, particularly his comments on the overemphasis on weight (handicap) differences.  Best of luck.
295206
In the long term, you don't.  Casinos stay in business by only having games where the odds are in their favor.
384498
How to win state and national lotteries.\nDo you want to win a BIG, BIG prize? Do you want to have all your financial worries sorted out? Do you want to win the lottery? The secret is very, very simple. Anybody can manage it. All you have to do is buy a ticket with the numbers that are going to be drawn at the next draw. If you do this I can GUARANTEE you will win the lottery.\n\n That's not exactly new information, is it?\n\nNeither is the idea that nobody can predict what those numbers will be. However, when a lottery machine selects the numbers this is in no sense a random action. It is 100% predictable. There is nothing stopping anybody calculating exactly which balls not only will, but MUST be drawn. Nothing stopping you. It will simply take a measuring and timing tolerance at the edge of possibility combined with a huge series of calculations.\n\nYou can measure the balls and know their properties. You can time the intervals between starting and stopping the contra-rotating tumble dryers. You can project the trajectories of every single ball and their interactions with each other. It can be done. But it would probably cost more than the size of the lottery jackpot to fund the project and nobody is going to be very happy with people standing around and timing the balls to that degree of accuracy, because one microsecond will totally disrupt all the calculations. The lottery ball machine is totally predictable and not in any way random, but exactly the same thing can be said about a woman. Both are determined and predictable systems, but they simulate randomness far more elegantly than true randomness would. True randomness is a willo-the-wisp entity, like infinity, the highest prime number and the function of half of the roundabouts in Warrington. Lottery machines are not random, but they are chaotic, and therefore, like the minds of women, very difficult to probe with the crude analytical tools we have at our disposal.\n\nSo, I can't tell you how to win the lottery. However, I can offer you some interesting advice that you might find helpful.\n\nYou have to be in it to win it\nThis is a very common slogan used by lotteries and football pools companies alike. What this slogan is saying is you can't dream of winning the lottery or the pools unless you part with your beer tokens. Of course they are right. If you never buy a ticket you can never win. But how many times do you dream of winning? Do you have to win every week to be happy? Of course not. You only have to win once. So you only have to buy one ticket, at some time in the future to be able to legitimately dream of winning a huge jackpot.\n\nOne ticket will do\nYour chance of winning a share in a big jackpot prize is very low. In the UK national lottery (now named Lotto) your chances of having a share of a top jackpot, by getting 6 balls out of 6 representing the numbers 1 to 49 are 1 in 13,983,816. \n\nNow most weeks people win, often several people share the jackpot. So it does happen. But if you staked £5 every week on those odds you would not have a realistic expectation of winning a share in a jackpot in a normal lifetime. But you knew that anyway, didn't you?\n\nSo you might as well get used to the idea that winning the lottery is unlikely. But it's also nice to have a dream, it is good for your mental health. So here is the secret: Buy a ticket. One day. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not.
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Although after the fact, the simple fact of the matter is the the race is not the race it used to be.  Unless the groung comes up heavy, the winner will be no greater than 25/1 ever again.  This narrows the field down to about 10 runners.  Using odds management it is, therefore possible to back all these runners and make a guaranteed profit of 10%
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Take a tip...Strong advise...Stay away from thoroughbred partnerships for racing...bad-bad idea.  Especially if the horse wins. Either buy the horse outright, save and decide what u will do with a racehorse after his/her racing career is over or subscribe/log onto the Thoroughbred Times at ThoroughbredTimes.com.\n\nDO NOT go partners in a racehorse for racing...In the matter of breeding, read and study before investing.
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12th Race - Pimlico - Saturday, May 20th, 2006\n\nConditions: Preakness S. (Grade 1), Stakes, $1,000,000, Open 3 yo, 1 3/16M, Dirt.\nOff Time: 6:19    Start: 9 went. Good for all. Won driving.   Track: Fast   Weather: Clear 65o\nPedigree: 8 - Bernardini, Bay Colt, 3, by A.P. Indy - Cara Rafaela by Quiet American\nFractions: :231, :463, 1:101, 1:353, 1:543    (:23.21, :46.69, 1:10.24, 1:35.73, 1:54.65)\n\n#HorseJockeyWeightWinPlaceShow\n8BernardiniCastellano Javier 12627.809.405.80\n7SweetnorthernsaintDesormeaux Kent J.1267.805.00\n3Hemingway's KeyRose Jeremy 1268.00\n\nWager TypePayoff Winning NumbersPool\n$2 Pick 3$446.20 1-1/4-8 (3 Correct) $434,873\n$2 Pick 4$1,620.80 4-1-1/4-8 (4 Correct) $1,462,048\n$2 Daily Double$66.20 1-8 $419,627\n$2 Daily Double$121.00 SPECIAL/PREAKNESS 4-8 $470,883\n$2 Exacta$171.60 8-7 $12,186,518\n$1 Superfecta$11,151.20 8-7-3-5 $6,488,237\n$2 Trifecta$3,912.80 8-7-3 $15,631,720\nOwner: Darley Stable\nTrainer: Thomas Albertrani\nBreeder: Darley (KY)\nAlso Ran: 5 - Brother Derek, 4 - Greeley's Legacy, 2 - Platinum Couple, 1 - Like Now, 9 - Diabolical, 6 - Barbaro
1027697
This completely depends on the horse. If you're asking as a gambling tip, you're better off asking about a specific horse. You need to take in their workouts, their racing style, their trainer, and even their jockey.
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try www.thoroughbets.com I use this in the U.S. and can place bets all over U.S. tracks as well as Australia. might try a yahoo search on sports betting in Australia... good luck.
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Place only betting means that there is no show betting in the race.\nJust win and place because there are not enough horses in the race to allow for show betting.\n\nThis is because the track feels it would lose money if they allowed show betting.\n\n99.9% of all races have win ,place and show betting.\n\nIf you bet a horse to win he has to win in order for you to win money.\n\nIf you bet a horse to place you will get money if he wins or places(comes in 2nd)\n\nIf you bet a horse to show(comes in 3rd) you will get money if he wins,places or shows.\n\nIn most cases but not always a horse will pay more to win and less for 2nd and even less for 3rd becuase of the pool money bet in the race.\n\nTo put it simply when you bet on a horse he has to finsih as well or better than you bet him for in order for you to cash your ticket.
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You only need 2 horses to race.  Just determine where the start and finish lines are...line up, and off you go.  The first to cross the finish line without cheating wins.\n\nThere are more organized races, with grandstands and betting and starting gates...but, even then, they only need 2 horses to create a race.
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Financial Spread betting is illegal in the US. I've practiced a little in the UK. You can do it using a UK website possibly. But be careful. No-one gets rich doing this thing. It's more like a game. You may win a bit once, twice and so on, but it's impossible to predict enough price variations constantly in the long run to be able to make money and cover the spread too, which is not negligible.
1062607
I use this website...it's pretty cool.  You can watch your horses race...\n\nwww.simulatedsports.com/hr\n\nhope it helps
1026334
well 1-20 is not very good odds. That would be the favor. To win $1 dollar you would have to lay(bet) $20. 5-4 isnt that good either, to win 5, you would bet 4. Horse races have long shots like 25-1. Were a you would win $25 for every $1 you bet. So if you bet $10 you would win $250. Other sports are different though baskatball is based on $100. Like the Mavs are favored. You $150. To win a hundred you would bet $150, and so on.
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A good place to start is the link below - I will try and explain it using a 2-horse example.\n\nSuppose you have 2 horses in a race, and the best (fixed) odds you can find for these horses are $2 and $2.50 respectively.\n\nFirstly we get the inverse of both odds.\n\nSo:\n1 / 2 = 0.5\n1 / 2.5 = 0.4\n\nNext we take the sum of these inverses:\n\n0.5 + 0.4 = 0.9 - call this number "s".  If "s" is less than 1, then there is an opportunity to lock in a guaranteed profit\n\nTo work out how much of your balance you should bet on each horse, take the inverse of the odds for a particular horse, and divide it by "s".\n\nSo for the first horse, the amount of your bank you should bet is:\n\n0.5 / 0.9 = 0.555555, or 55.5556%\n\nAnd for the second horse the amount is:\n\n0.4 / 0.9 = 0.444444 or 44.44444%\n\nSo if you had $100 to wager on this race, you would put $55.56 on horse 1 (the horse with odds of $2), and $44.44 on horse 2 (the horse with odds of $2.50.\n\nNo matter which horse won, you would be guaranteed a return of $111.11, so a profit on your $100 bet of $11.11\n\nThis works no matter how many horses are in a race - just expand the calculations to include all the horses, and make sure that "s" is less than 1.\n\nHope this helped.\n\nAlso, have a read of the link provided.
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Handicapping is not a science. It is an 'educated' opinion at best. The whole purpose of a horse race is designed to give everybody an equal chance at winning. Technically, the Racing Secretary has put together a race that will allow every horse to finish a race in a dead heat to win. In reality, that's not the case.\n\nBut, I look at the trainer and how his record stands at the track. Sometimes owners and trainers can get into arguements or bill paying problems and the trainer may be out to 'burn' the owner by not training the horse properly.\n\nA dishonest or incompetent trainer will reveal himself in the standings. Even the great Man O' War, Seabiscuit, Barbaro needed to be trained.\n\nA horse needs at least two weeks rest between races to be considered an 'honest' entry for handicapping. Avoid horses who are being raced every four or five days. Breeding is also important-horses for courses is pretty much the norm in handicapping. \n\nHave fun at the track and don't try to bet more than you could afford to loose. Bet with your head, not over it.\n\nWhatever the system or formula you come up with, stick to it. Eventiually every system will pay off. Do your handicapping at home having a cup of coffee and some cake, relax. Then, go to the track and wager without the need to hurry up between races. Enjoy the day at the track. Don't pressure yourself into betting.\n\nHandicapping is simply throwing out, or eliminating, any horse that doesn't figure to win. You should always handicap to win. Try picking a horse to come last in any given race-much more difficult. So, when you go to the track, have fun and...\n\nGood luck
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do the whole pick a horse for a dollar with the names in a cup unless you want to hire a bookie to do bets. Def. have some music and a few tvs around with the races. drinking games would be a good idea too, derby is a time for drinking!