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Originally Posted by Nitro
You might not realize it, but the major difference between playing a Stakes race versus a lower class level race is that the player can generally count on all the entries trying to win the race. That’s because of the desire to get a piece of the larger purse monies involved.
That’s never the case with the lower-class races. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to detect the intentions in those type of races is to follow the live betting patterns. They can sometimes be either very obvious or very subtle. The understandable justification for this is the desire to get a piece of those sometimes very attractive betting pools.
Either way, the motivation is clearly to win money.
As an insider or an outsider isn’t that what this game is all about?
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Excellent point. Took me a while to figure that out.
95% of my bigger scores were in Stakes races. Always up and coming horses or horses being over-looked due to some “old school’ reason.
