Taulbot (RIP) called it the "V" angle

[karlskorner]

I call it the "Z" angle

www.americanturf.com/newsletter/show.cfm?id=291

[kenwoodallpromos]

Might be interesting, but i wonder how handicappers can remember allthese minor angles I see with 5 or more qualifications! I could not keep everything straight. Is there a secret to remembering all those?

[sq764]

That's funny you say that, cause I have always wondered that..

Like how can you remember 10 angles that could fit 7 horses, THEN have the ability to separate them?

[dav4463]

Woudn't there be a way to take all the Taulbot angles and put them into a computer program that would print out the qualifiers and the angle they qualified on? It would also need to track each angle so you could see which were profitable.

[sq764]

I just wonder if you'd end up with 7 horses with 3-6 angles each :-)

Then what??

[dav4463]

You would have to pass if more than 3 or 4 horses looked like viable contenders. One time I went through my stack of American Turf Monthly magazines and checked some Taulbot and Dan Geer angles and that is what happened...some races had every horse qualify on some angle ! I guess you have to track each one to see which is most profitable (if any) and stick with the top two or three angles.

[Pace Cap'n]

One might consider the very essence of handicapping to be the determination of the dominant angle in the race at hand.

[Tuffmug]

Angles tell you something about trainer intent and potential fitness of a particular horse. However, that's just the BEGINNING of the process of handicapping a race.

[Speed Figure]

I think his Pace Computer 3.0 has all his angles on it.