Handicapping Part One
“You can beat a race, but you can’t beat the races.”
At one time or another, every aspiring handicapper has heard this. And, at one time or another, most of us have believed it. I mean, it sounds good and seems reasonable. The “races”, after all, appear at first to be this huge mountain of obstacles all stacked against the lone horseplayer. Then, when he wins a single “race,” the horseplayer may decide that a single race can be beaten, but the races will eventually beat him.