The fact remains that the majority of people who bets on horses were ahead of the game or lose it some times. It may only be for a few races, a day, a week.

Professional handicappers also have their losing times, but many of them manage to ride out the losing streaks and win enough at the end of the year to make a profit. It can be a long hard grind and there are very few people who can support themselves from their horseracing handicapping profits. On the other hand, there are people who make a modest amount of people and manage to stay a little ahead.

So if there are times that you are ahead, it means that you sometimes get it right, or perhaps, luck is on your side. Whatever the case may be, if you could eliminate some bad bets, you might stay ahead longer. A friend of mine used to be a pretty good handicapper and would often go home with more than he left with. His wife would ask him how he did.

He would tell her, “Well, I won $500 but then I made a few more bets and wound up with $300.”

“Well why don’t you just bet on the ones that are going to win, why bet on the other ones?” his wife would ask in disgust.

If only she understood that we bet only on the ones we think will win, but we don’t know which ones are good enough until after the race. So we bet on losers as well as winner. What is needed is a method that eliminates those losers and that means you need a system with guidelines.

If you look over your losing bets, you may see a pattern. It isn’t always easy to spot, in fact, sometimes it is downright impossible to see it, but a good system with guidelines can eliminate bad bets without all the effort of trying to figure it out yourself. What makes a horse racing system work better than no system at all is that the guidelines built into the system are often there to keep you from making bad bets.

The horses a good system eliminates are often more important than the ones it picks. Think about that.