If you’re trying to make money at the dog track, you probably spend a lot of time going through programs. You may be familiar with all the terms and what the numbers mean. But do you know which ones REALLY matter? Do you know how to use the ones that matter to separate the contenders from the non-contenders?
That is the most important downside part of a program. You are seeing the same information that everyone else on the track sees. The only way to beat the crowd is by knowing which information to pay attention to and which to ignore.
Let’s face it, you don’t have hours to go through a program. You have to be able to grasp the factors that matter, compare them between dogs, and make your selections in minutes. This is not easy unless you are very good at organizing and sifting data.
You could find some software to do it, but I’ve never found any that worked as well as a smart handicapper with a sharp pencil. Like most dog gamers, I prefer to cast my dogs with old methods, except for the approach I use. That is new.
Where it used to take me all day to go over a program, now I only take a few minutes per race. I’ve found that when you remove some of the factors that don’t matter as much, the time spent reviewing programs is greatly reduced.
This new approach to organizing information that I used to have to navigate has brought back the fun of going to the dog track. I guess I’m getting too old to put up with long complicated methods that make me play with a calculator or wonder if I should pick dogs by speed or class or what.