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Watching races is essential and watching them live at the course is the best, arguably the only, way.
As has already been said – only trust what you see with your own eyes.
Totally disagree that watching at the course is the best way. Are you saying you can see how well a horse is jumping up the back straight at Wincanton from the Grandstand? What about how well a 2 year old travelled down the Rowley Mile in a back end maiden at Newmarket? And then there’s Aintree’s Grand Natinoal Course.
Ever since I have had a video recorder (since 1986) I have taped every meeting I attend and watch the recordings when I get home to get a true picture of what happened.
As for "trusting what your eyes see", this is a myth largely attributed to Phil Bull. Often people see what they want to see. Especially if you have had a bet. The key to success in betting (and I dont purport to being successful, far from it) is to be as objective as possible when assimilating the masses of information now available to the punter. With race recordings available via ATR and RP online for every race run, you can watch all of the form you want before having a bet.
Unless you have serious discipline and objectivity, all of the information resources in the world will not help you. I think this may have been what Zoso was driving at – the brain can only take so much before it ceases to process that information in a meanginful way.
I find the calim that "you need to be at the track" a very old fashioned remark, which fails to recognise the Betfair revlolution (total transparency which you cannot get standing in the ring) and the 21st Century Media resources available to punters.
Going racing is a lovely day out, but a hinderance to serious punting.
Totally agree.
"being at the course" is an old fashioned way to punting. Times have moved on now and being at the course to see the action live is no help whatsoever IMO.
Also agree regarding info – you can have too much so much so that you can talk your own way out of any bet. You are never going to find a race where everything is 100% perfect for one horse and 100% imperfect for the rest – if by miracle it happens your selection will be 1/10.
I agree too. The only reason I go to Cheltenham is because I love it, watching the Championship races gives me a huge buzz, but I have no doubt it’s costing me money punting-wise: It’s very hard to keep track of the course market, BF and the Tote in a big crowd with just a mobile, and you don’t get to hear the prevailing wisdom regarding the ground, pace biases and so on.
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Carv
You’re watching too much racing on TV, if you think there are pace biases at Cheltenham.
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