Any rider looking to make some money at the horse racing game should practice and hone their handicapping skills. Those new to the game, rookies, and day laborers should embrace the old adage, “practice makes perfect.” Before betting for real money, there is a way to practice your handicapping skills with free past performances provided by various means.
Daily Racing Form (drf.com) offers the best past handicap performance under its Formulator brand through its “Race of the Day”. The races they choose are generally popular Stakes races or high-value events that have some significance. Big races often feature a video of DRF handicap highlights offering their opinions and picks for the race.
Equibase (equibase.com) also offers free races the day after performances. These are typically Challenge Maiden events or low-level reclaim races. They are exceptional racing picks to really challenge your handicapping skills. Using them to practice and avoiding betting on them is the way to go. Unless you have a good account in the race and choose to bet. Payments can be very nice.
Time Form (timeformus.com) is another excellent site that offers not one, but two enjoyable runs to test your handicapping skills. Weekends are usually reserved for the most popular stunt races that appear on the calendar. Weekdays typically have races on some of the smaller tracks, posing some nice challenges for the uphill handicapper. Easy to navigate and packed with all handicap metric questions, this site offers great handicap practice.
Bris-Net (brisnet.com) occasionally offers free full card past presentations for multiple tracks. However, you have to hunt them down. High-quality past performances offer data that some of the other sites don’t have on the face of the sheets. Mudder’s pedigree data would be an example.
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (dmtc.com) offers past performances from Bris-Net for its free online seasonal contests. All you have to do is set up a free account on the site and navigate to the handicap / contest area of your website. Download free past performances, handicap that day’s race, enter your picks and see how you do. This is a wonderful way to practice disability.
Your local track. Sometimes your home race track can post some free past performances for race day or a future race event. Just visit the website and see what they have to offer. At times, both Fair Grounds Race Course and Arlington International have offered past Bris-net performances for the entire card or specific multi-race bets. Regardless, you should familiarize yourself with your local or favorite Tracks website, just as a way to increase your horse racing knowledge.
Horse Racing Nation (horseracingnation.com) is fast becoming the site handicappers visit for horse racing news and information on upcoming major events. They have sometimes offered free past performances (Bris-net) for the races that follow. His tips and tools for the disabled are some of the best in the industry. It is worth checking out and should be reserved as a priority when handicapping the big races on your calendar.
Free is always best when you want to level up your handicapping skills while embarking on a fund-building plan. Remember, your AWD (Advanced Betting Deposit Account) will provide free past performances, but you will need to bet a minimum amount as prescribed by AWD. If you want to practice without a cash outlay, try the sites above that offer free past performances. Get out of your depression. Test theories and angles. Use intriguing metrics. Practice pays off.