At the greyhound track, there is a winner in every race. There is also a dog that places and another that comes in third place for the show. Even if exotic bets are not allowed on a race, and few races don’t have some kind of exotic bet, someone makes money with one, two or three dogs.
You may be saying, “Well, sure! That’s certainly stating the obvious!”, but bear with me. There is a point I am trying to make here and it may be one that you have never thought about before, even if you have been going to the dog track for years.
The point is that tickets are collected at each race. There is no such thing as a race where no one has a winning ticket, at least not that I’ve heard of. Even when the winner is a long shot with incredibly high odds, someone has it. You can see people walking to the windows after each race, with their tickets out, ready to hit the bag and get their money back.
So if someone wins every race, why don’t you win more races? What do these people know that you don’t? Are they all dog owners, trainers and kennel staff? Does everyone have someone standing inside the ring to tell them which dog is going to win? Do they just pick lucky numbers?
My guess is that it is none of the above. True, some people win because they have inside information and it happens more often than you think. But there are other people who win because they have figured out how to tell when the dogs are good bets and when they are not.
With only basic handicapping skills, they use a method of picking winners based on key factors that most bettors know little or nothing about. And that is why, although there are winners in every race, very few people know which dog will cross the finish line first. Even if they do, many times they have the winner, but lose one or two of the other trifecta dogs.
With these two key factors, the smart bettor can do better than just pick winners. You can also find out how to bet to maximize your odds and minimize your risks. Picking winners isn’t enough to achieve trifectas, because picking a dog isn’t worth it in the long run. You have to have both keys to win in trifectas and some people just never find them or worse know enough to look for them.
Oddly enough, these key factors are all right on the show, but hardly anyone knows what to look for or how to use the factors to bet and make trifectas. While the key factors stare them in the face, most punters look for other factors that have nothing to do with whether a dog is ready to win, get placed, or show. And they do it over and over again, failing trifecta after trifecta, even when they have the winner. Even when they have two of the dogs in the trifecta!
There is an easy way to find dogs that are good trifecta bets: dogs that have a very good chance of hitting the board. Often these dogs are not favorites or dogs that you would normally put in your trifecta bets, but they are the dogs that are going to BE the trifecta. These are the key dogs and these are the dogs you have to have to win.