| Are you keeping track of pool totals and using | | | | Obviously, Saturday and holidays are the days |
| money moves on the toteboard to determine | | | | when many people go to the track just for fun. |
| which runners are live? It is a good way to | | | | They have no inside information and therefore, |
| know which horses in the race will be sent and | | | | they are betting based on what they read in the |
| which ones are out for a little breeze. By that I | | | | program, horses touted by the public |
| mean which riders will be trying to win with their | | | | handicappers, or even lucky numbers. To put it |
| horses and which ones have instructions to only | | | | bluntly, the recreational players are not a very |
| exercise their horses. If you think that every | | | | savvy crowd. They pour money into the pools |
| horse in a horse race is being sent out to win, | | | | and blindly bet against the owners and trainers |
| then you don't know much about the business of | | | | who know whether or not their horse really has a |
| owning and training horses. | | | | chance to win. |
| While there can be many reasons for not trying | | | | When the crowd is the smallest, then the inside |
| to win, or at least not pushing a horse too hard, | | | | money is a bigger percentage of the total pool. |
| when a horse is being "sent" to win, the stable will | | | | It is much easier to see imbalances and |
| usually put some money on it. There are ways | | | | percentages that show you when a horse is well |
| to check this on the tote board. Betting against | | | | meant. If you handicap a race and figure a |
| the smart money is one way to go broke betting | | | | horse should be at 5-1 and it is at 5-2 at post |
| on horses. | | | | time, you know that there is some serious inside |
| Believe it or not, it does make a difference as to | | | | money, that is smart money, wagered on the |
| which day of the week you play the horses as | | | | horse and there is a reason fro that. |
| far as playing against the smart money goes. | | | | I am not advocating that you only go to the |
| Just ask yourself this question, which day(s) of | | | | track or bet on horses when the crowd is small, |
| the week do many people attend the track for | | | | but I am advising you to pay particular attention |
| recreation and which days of the week are likely | | | | to inconsistencies in the odds on those days. |
| to have a higher percentage of the in crowd, the | | | | You may find some good bets or also lay off |
| owners and trainers and backstretch denizens | | | | some horses who are not meant to win that day |
| around? | | | | just by watching the money. |