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Speed Figures and Variants:. I could probably do a week at Club Med if I had $10 for every time someone has buttonholed me at a seminar or Expo, or called on the phone and opened. The conversation with, So how do you handle variants? They seem to hate the answer I ve developed to avoid long, unresolved debates: I just shrug and say, I don t. Usually this does the trick and they shake their heads and walk off, although once in a while it starts a one-sided harangue on why I should. If you work on a few tr...

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Big Data, Little Data, and The Fairs. Race results data can now be had in virtually unlimited quantities, in pre-digitized format. Presumably, somebody, somewhere typed the stuff into a computer, but it ain t me. Anymore thank goodness. The raw data is now available, for a price, from several sources on the Web, and if you are going to put it to your own use, the first thing you need to decide is how large your study population should be. Is even better. Right? What is often lost in these broad-based com...

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Making odds is one of those things that can be surprisingly simple, or remarkably complex. Simple is really all you need in order to add the huge benefit to your handicapping that making a line can provide. Later, if you are going to move into value betting, you will probably want to refine the odds process considerably. Personally, I ve always just used the more straight-to-the point analogy of, What percent chance of winning does this horse have? You re darned tootin . Highbred three-year-old races...

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iCapper.Com - North American Race Tracks

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North American Race Tracks. Compliments of iCapper.Com and DesertSea.Com. Feel free to copy this page to your desktop and use it as a pop-up reference on your handicapping computer. For a short summary of many of the tracks listed below, see the NTRA Race Tracks Page. Search by first letter of abbreviation:. Use your browser BACK button to return to top and from weatrher pages. Agua Caliente, Mexico (closed). Alb - Albuquerque, NM. Aqu - Aqueduct, NY. ArP - Arapahoe Park, CO. Arlington International, Il.

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iCapper.Com Odds Table

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For additional information on odds, using odds to find value, random odds, and other odds-related topics, see articles by Charles Carroll at iCapper.Com. Feel free to print this table, or save it as an html file as a pop-up reference on your handicapping computer. Odds to Percent Conversion Table.

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iCapper.Com Articles by Charles Carroll

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In an earlier column, I mentioned that we have been running a handicappers survey on DesertSea.Com. The survey covers a number of topics, but one that piqued my interest enough so that I recently modified the survey questions, was the ageing of horse racing enthusiasts. There have been gloomy predictions that this is a dying sport because up-and-coming younger players are not replenishing it and, as we geezers punch off the time clock, eventually there will be no one left to turn out the lights. For this...

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iCapper.Com Articles by Charles Carroll

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Quarter Horse Futurity Trials. Last week I waxed poetic about the horsy experience of standing at the finish line at Ruidoso Downs at the end of a Quarter Horse futurity or derby trial, and how it s one of those nostalgia-makers like strolling through the old shed rows at Saratoga on a misty morn . There was one little factoid that I left out of that scene that has a lot to do with my. Nostalgia: Quarter Horse futurity trials are like having a key to the stinking bank. Of money hitting the till. I spent ...

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iCapper.Com Favorite Quotes

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Favorite Horse Racing Quotes. He ain't Count Fleet. But you say he's sound? Sure Doesn't run fast enough to hurt himself. Dave Feldman, Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. Who makes the most money? Horse bettors first, followed by sports bettors. Then poker, golf hustlers, and blackjack and backgammon players R.W. Munchkin, in Gambling Wizards. Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. Dean Inge, Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge. If he plays being young and unskillful,. For shekels of silver and gold,.

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iCapper.Com Articles by Charles Carroll

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Making your own odds line by hand is an excellent tune-up for your personal handicapping (see Part 1, last week). However, once you ve tuned up, you may prefer to computerize it. Computerizing the line frees you to put your attention where it almost has to be today: planning your bets against the moving target of the public odds. The days when you could pick up a Form. Odds of 1 to 10 mean that in the public s opinion, that horse (or entry) has a 90.91%. I cannot imagine ever. Making a horse 1 to 10 in m...