Pick Winners in Horse Races Using Speed and Class Crosses
If you want to pick winners in horse races you are going to have to learn the basics. The most important factors in horse racing are class and speed. If you keep track of which runners win most often, you’ll soon find that the winner is often in the top three speed horses and or the top three class horses.
But that does not mean that all you have to do is pick a speed horse with class and stand at the teller waiting for your money, because they often lose. The same is true of the

pick winners in horse races using speed and class crosses
While you have to know how to assess each horse’s true speed and class, you also have to make adjustments to them to make allowances for form. Form is simply an assessment of the recent ability of the horse. While a runner may have won a $100,000 stakes race three years
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ago, it doesn’t mean that it is presently in condition to perform such a feat. In fact the horse may only have the ability to win a $10,000 claiming race in its current form. Many factors contribute to a horse’s form and will indicate whether it is improving or regressing. This article will only concentrate on speed and class.
Putting speed and class together in a meaningful way will help you to determine each horse’s fair value in the betting pools. The way you do that is to cross r
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eference speed and class. The best way to learn how to do this is to read each horse’s name out loud and to say its last speed figure and the level that it raced at. For instance, you might say, “Speedy didn’t win, but he earned a 78 in his last race at the ten thousand claimer level. Smarty did win. In his last race he earned an 80, but at the eight thousand claimer level…” and so on.
What you are learning to do is to make adjustments in your mind to the speed figures of each horse. If the horses are running at the $8,000 claiming level and you think Smarty will perform the same way, you might think he has a chance of winning with a 80 speed fig. The only problem is that Smarty is dropping in class and was just two ticks off the leader at the finish. How does this relate to how they should be priced on the toteboard? Do you see what I mean?
If you look at the tote board and see Speedy is at 1-1, but Smarty is at 3-1, then after you make your adjustments for form and connections (jockey and trainer ability) you will probably want to bet on Smarty. Learning to make accurate adjustments based on looking at class and speed as a coupled factor will help you to understand just what each runner should be valued at and that is the only way to make money handicapping horse races.








