Belmont Park Picks - Racing Dudes (2024)

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How do you pick the best horse racing winners? ›

If you like a horse in a race, you can bet it “across the board,” which means a WIN, PLACE and SHOW bet on the same horse. If it crosses the finish line first, you win all three bets. The safest bet you can make is a SHOW bet on the favorite.

The Racing Dudes are Jared Welch and Aaron Halterman, high school acquaintances who discovered a mutual love for horse racing.

The JACKPOT is an exciting bet where you are required to choose the winner of the four consecutive Jackpot races. This is obviously harder to win than the Double, but the rewards are much higher. To make this bet easier to win you can take a permutation, where you select a number of horses in each race or leg.

History is on the side of Catalytic, a 30-1 longshot, as the highest number of Derby winners have come from the No. 5 spot. Ten of the 94 horses that began in that gate went on to be crowned champion, more than any other post position.

In the steeplechase, the numbers between 11 and 29 have proved to be the most successful, supplying 12 winners over this period. 35 and 29, 13 and 10 lead the way, however, with these numbers claiming victory twice each so far.

In conclusion, the most profitable horse racing strategy is value betting. It involves identifying discrepancies between a bettor's estimation of a horse's chance of winning and the odds provided by the bookmaker. By taking advantage of these apparent errors, bettors can maximize profits with higher chances of winning.

Win/Place or Place/Show: Simply a combination of win & place or place & show. There are two combinations, so a $2 bet would cost $4 in total.

If you've mastered the art of win, place and show wagers, try a trifecta. A trifecta is more difficult than win, place and show wagers, as well as exacta wagers, so it yields a higher payout than any of those bets. You bet a trifecta be selecting a minimum three horses to finish first, second, and third.

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How to bet a horse race? ›

Pick a horse and bet him to win (finish first), place (finish second) or show (finish third). This is a $2 base bet, and you can certainly bet more if you'd like. You can also bet the horse "across the board," meaning you have him to win, place and show — which is a $6 bet on a $2 base bet.

Recent additions of young black drivers in the racing ranks such as Ugo Ugochukwu (part of the McLaren Driver Development programme), and Kenzo Craigie (part of the Mercedes Driver Academy), point to the start of real change in the participation of black people in motorsport.

Look for a horse with a shiny coat, nicely arched neck, spring in his stride, and alert, energized demeanor. Horses that are sweating profusely, bucking or exhibiting other nervous behavior may expend too much energy before the race to produce an optimal effort.

The Trifecta is picking the top three finishers in exact order. One of the hardest horse betting types to get right, the payouts can be enormous depending on the horse betting odds. Minimum entries 4 for a bet to be official. The Trifecta Box, as you probably guessed is picking the top three horses regardless of order.

Picking a Winner by Reading the Form

Form is the record of a horse's performance in previous races and is seen by many as a good way of predicting a horse's future performance. Comparing horses' form should enable you to pick the likely best performers in a race.

The rules of horse racing are usually simple: the first horse to cross the finish line wins. But with fractions of seconds separating winners from the rest, determining a winner was an inexact science before photography's invention.

Win-Place-Show

This is the simplest way to bet on horse races. Pick a horse and bet him to win (finish first), place (finish second) or show (finish third). This is a $2 base bet, and you can certainly bet more if you'd like.