how do handycaps work in horse racing is the No1 horse the highest handycap and No2 horse less weight?
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It has nothing to do with the number of the horse.  The numbers, or positions at the start, are drawn randomly.\n\nThe handicapper increases the weight an individual horse has to carry to slow him down, so that at the end of the race, there is the possibility of a photo finish.\n\nIf the handicapper weighted the horses correctly, every horse will hit the finish line at the same time.\n\nThis is usually not the case, because they do not take into account luck, heart, and how each horse is feeling on race day.
1118370
A two-tone horse is a paint, hombre. Paints are way cool, the equine equivalent of a convertible.
120418
My father taught me the most important lesson I ever learned about betting horses. Don't bet the horse, bet the odds board.\n\nExample: If you handicap a horse to win and the horse is even money, forget him, find a better bet, even if you know the even money shot is going to win.\n\nI've been betting horses, and winning, since I was 12, about 42 years ago. This is the best lesson I ever learned.\n\nIt doesn't answer the handicapping question (current form, curren class, current success of connections) but it may help in winning more money, and I think that's what you are looking for.
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Glen Boss is by far and wide the best big race jockey in Australia and in my opinion has a bit on the current jockeys riding, D Beadman wins premierships but when it comes to the Group 1s no one is near Bossy and his Group 1 tally for the past few seasons will go to prove that beyond a doubt. Oliver will be the only 1 to give boss any cometititions in the group 1 races when he is back from injury.
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Ive taught lead changes to a couple horses before.  Start in an open arena with nothing in the way... you need plenty of space.  Trot your horse to the left making sure his body is slightly bending with the circle... ask him to pick up the left lead by raising your left rein and giving most of your leg pressure on the outside of the circle(wich if heading left.. would mean your right leg).  When he picks up the correct lead either continue circleing or head around the riding area.  Dont make him counter-canter! If he's just learning this then counter-cantering will confuse him. Remember to reward him by removing leg pressure.  OK ->  so, now youve got your horse in the left lead right?  After going around the areana at the left lead or doing a couple sparatic circles to the left with-out stoping head your horse into a straight line break him down into a trot and then... start heading to the right... repeat the above.  (bend horse in circle, lift inside rein, give outside leg pressure)  Its important that once you get the horse on the correct lead that you continue circleing them in that direction for a little while.  This reinforces the... It feels better to be on the correct lead and will help taking leads become more natural.  Eventually your horse will learn to change leads as soon as you give a little leg pressure or lift your rein.  Some horses get agrevated if you drill them with this for very long.  So plan on getting one or maybe two good changes of lead and then work on something else like halting square and balanced, sidepassing etc.  Once your horse is consistently picking up leads when heading into circles try being creative.. trotting your horse into a sharp corner and picking up the lead is great for their balance.  The better and better they get the fewer the trotting strides you will need to take inbetween changes.  Eventually you wont need to trot at all.  A classic pattern for teaching a horse lead changes is to do a fat figure eight... Make a circle on the correct lead, come to the center of your eight and begin a trot, lift rein, give leg, head in other direction.
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A claiming race is a race in which any person can 'claim' or buy any horse in the race. The amount of the claim price is based on the level of the competetion. The top claiming race is about $100,000 and the bottom goes down to less than $3,000.
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Depends on the age and at what fitness level you are trying to keep these horse.\nIf you are trying to keep them racing fit you are going to need to work them every day and breeze them about every seven days.\nIt also will depend on the horse. Some need to race even 10 days or so just to keep fit.\nWe rode ours third or fourth day  day and did about three miles with some spped in the second mile and some again in the thrid mile if the horse wanted to. These wer long slower gallops not like you were asking for top speed. Just bursts of speed in the middle. \nOn the off days we still rode but slower without asking for speed.\nIf you are not able to ride each horse consider ponying one if you are comfortable doing it. Alternate who is ridden and who is ponied.\nWe would alternat this with free round pen work
495008
Whoa, Im confused reading your question. What does this have to do with horse racing?
672624
Dont back - lay the horses, its the only way to make money from racing. Contact me if you are interested. The favourite, Dabbers Ridge, will NOT win the 3.20
1156678
have the horse go really fast.  Faster than the others and cross the finish line first.
500030
In horse racing for instance, the bookmaker decides which horse is most likely to win (the favourite).  If it is a three horse race, the favourite would be probably 1 - 4, the second favourite 1 - 1 and the third 3 - 1.  Once betting starts, if he receives a large bet on the second favourite, he may cut the odds to 1 - 3 and increase the favourite to the same 1 - 3.  This continues until just before the off when he balances his books.  He may offer the favourite at 1 - 1 just before the off to ensure that he does not lose.   In, say, a boxing match, he will do the same 1 - 5 on his first choice and 1-1 on the second. When betting begins, these odds will fluctuate.  If it is a draw the bookie wins all, unless of course he took bets on the result being such.  (The odds 1 - 3 mean that you put three dollars on to win one, plus your initial bet, so if you win, you get four dollars back).
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I'm not sure because I've never heard it, but it sounds like it be the same as across the board in which you bet all three paying finishes on the horse. If you bet $5 across the board on #7 then you are betting $5 for #7 to win, $5 to place, and $5 to show making the total bet $15. If #7 wins then you win the pay-off for all three finishes. If he places then you win just 2nd and 3rd place money, losing the $5 bet to win. And if he shows you win only third place money losing both $5 bets on win and place. Hope this helps.
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It is desired by every trainer to have the weight assigned to a horse to be the weight of a jockey. If a horse is assigned 112 lbs., the perfect weight for a jockey for that particular horse in that particular race would be 112 lbs.\n\nIf a horse is assigned 112 lbs. in a race and the jockey weighs 100 lbs. the horse is required to have lead placed in the saddle bags to make up for the twelve lb. diference, 112 lbs. assigned weight - 100 lbs. (jockey) = 12 LBS.\n\nFrom the time the horse leaves the gate, a jockey will guide the horse. Sometimes it is necessary to shift weight or change leads, (the front left/right leg a horse reaches out during its stride while racing). If there is dead-lead weight in the saddle bags, that weight rewmains in place and will not shift. The jockey can and will shift his weight, as the jockey see's fit, to ease up on the pressure of the weight the horse is carrying.\n\nTo answer the question about the standard weight of a jockey would determine the average weight assigned to the horses a jockey wishes to ride... \n\nIf a jockey rides in a claiming race, it would be best to get an average of the weights assigned to each horse at that racetrack and gear the weight a jockey is required to carry, to your own weight. The same holds true for allowance horses, and graded races...Stay as close to the assigned weighht as possible for the benefit of getting a mount.\n\nThere is no height requirement to be a jockey.
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They start at basically the same spot, since one lap around Belmont's dirt course is one and a half miles.\n\nThe reason why it looks otherwise is because tracks usually give the horses some yardage to get up to speed so to speak.  Different tracks (I think) may give horses more yardage to run to start races, depending on track configurations, distance of the race, etc.\n\nExample, I believe Pimlico pretty much starts their 6 furlong races on the 3/4 pole on the 6 furlong chute because of the track's configuration.
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you dont takle the horse, the horse takles you.  i have run across some videos of this on the net.\n\n\nMay the horse be with you.
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I have to say it is the basic fight or flight instinct.  Horses are built more for the flight, they are good at it.  When a horse gets spooked, it will bolt.  TB's are bred down for their speed and stamina.  This selective breeding produces horses that are easily trained to break from a gait and race away.  The jockey may signal a horse that things are okay and the horse will hold back, then the jockey tenses and asks the horse for more speed, the horse senses this as a need to run away faster.  Jockeys race toward the finish line, horses run away from something.  If the horse injures itself, the thing it thinks it is running from is still there.  In nature the weak or injured are the ones who get eaten.
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There are a number of ways, but, the most formidable is to raise the upper lip and retrieve the number tattooed on the inside of the upper lip. Sometimes, the number is difficult to see, so try this idea. Get a high speed digital camera, 4 MP or more, and snap a photo of the inside of the upper lip with a towel or cloth over the horses eyes so as not to scare or frighten the horse from the flash. Download the photo of the horses inside portion of his upper lip onto a computer and print out the numbers. Take the photo and get in touch with the equine veterinarian within your state and explain to him what you want i.e., pedigree, race record, etc., and the equine veterinarian will tell you exactly what to do.\n\nIf there is no number on the inside of the upper lip of a horse, the horse never raced. All horses are checked by track officials before they enter the racetrack so as to make certain the right horse is on the racetrack and listed on the program as scheduled.\n\nYou may also ask the previous owner of the racehorse for the race record and pedigree and take it for what it's worth.