| If you'd like to win at the dog track, you have to | | | | smarter and can get around other dogs better |
| be able to see things that the average bettor | | | | than lower class dogs. So, the dog that usually |
| doesn't see. There are all kinds of little tricks that | | | | gets out ahead of the pack and leads the way |
| can turn a so-so handicapper into a very good | | | | doesn't. |
| handicapper. | | | | The crowd is shocked and some of them even |
| One of them is being able to know when a dog is | | | | think that there's been a substitution. Not likely. |
| going to run out of character. If everyone else is | | | | More likely that the dog is smart and doesn't |
| expecting a dog to break, but you know that it | | | | waste its energy trying to beat the stiff |
| likely won't in this race, you're way ahead of the | | | | competition. |
| game, aren't you? | | | | It's the same with closers. At the end of the |
| But how can you tell what a dog is going to do in | | | | race, if they're outclassed, some of them just |
| any particular race? And don't greyhounds always | | | | stay behind the leaders without even trying to |
| run with the same style? Why would a dog that | | | | pass them at the end of the race. |
| gets out quickly, fail to do that in a race? | | | | Look for situations where dogs are outclassed |
| One reason for speed dogs being slower to start | | | | and you won't be surprised by this scenario. I do |
| in some races is because they're outclassed. If | | | | it by looking through the program for races |
| the other dogs get out much more quickly than | | | | where one or two dogs that break are way |
| they do, some dogs don't even try. | | | | outclassed by the other dogs. |
| They just go through the motions of running the | | | | Many times, in spite of the class difference, the |
| race, like you'd probably do if you were playing | | | | crowd will make a breaker a favorite or second |
| basketball with the Celtics. What's the point of | | | | favorite. If you know this little secret, you can |
| running your heart out to catch a lure that you | | | | save yourself some money by not betting dogs |
| know the other dogs are going to catch first? | | | | that are outclassed. |
| Not only are classier dogs faster, they're also | | | | |