| If you are trying to make a living betting on horse | | | | reason for that is twofold. |
| races, trying to be a professional horse racing | | | | First of all, good spot plays and horse racing angles |
| handicapper, then you know how difficult figuring out | | | | are usually bet heavily by those handicappers who |
| the races can be. There are so many factors to | | | | know about them and play them. That means that |
| consider and so much judgment to use that | | | | getting high odds on an SP isn't always easy. In fact, |
| sometimes it seems a genius couldn't figure it out. | | | | in many cases, you will find that angles and spot |
| That is absolutely correct. Sometimes the greatest | | | | plays are over bet. But that still doesn't mean you |
| minds in the world can't figure out a horse race | | | | can't make money playing them because of the |
| because sometimes things happen unexpectedly. | | | | second aspect of spot plays. |
| If you are getting tired from working so hard, | | | | The second thing you need to know about spot |
| spending hours poring over past performances and | | | | plays is when they work and where they work. In |
| speed graphs, here is a suggestion for how to make | | | | other words, there are times, tracks, races, where |
| a profit without going crazy. Spot plays (SP) or | | | | spot plays don't usually work. If you keep a record |
| angles are horses that are in a certain situation that | | | | of each time an SP wins or loses, you'll find that they |
| proves profitable over time. A classic example of a | | | | may work better in certain class levels and types of |
| SP, is the only early speed in a race. In a race where | | | | races. For instance, the same spot play that makes a |
| a horse that likes to run in front can easily get to the | | | | profit over the long run in 6 furlong races for 3 year |
| front and run uncontested on the lead. These types | | | | olds at Gulfstream Park, may not make a profit in |
| of horses often win the race because they get to | | | | races for older horses at the same distance at GP. |
| run the way they like to run without any pressure. | | | | So keeping accurate records for a few months or |
| If you think about it, there are probably several spot | | | | even a season, will show you which races to play |
| plays or angles that you know about similar to the | | | | and which ones to avoid. Then, using just one good |
| lone early speed. The problem is that people will find | | | | spot play and looking for it in the races at the tracks |
| an SP play or read about one and then play it every | | | | where it works, will give you plenty of bets with a |
| time they find it in any race. Eventually, they lose | | | | positive outcome, in other words, you can make |
| money on it and decide that it doesn't work. The | | | | money playing your one good spot play. |