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Originally Posted by jamey1977
All They had was just class charts. What if we had Beyer Charts in 1950 and didn't tell anyone ? . We could have made a zillion dollars. The crowd was so stupid. They would have some blind favorite 7 to 5 and there were 14 to 1's. That if they had Beyers, would have been 3 to 1. And we got . 14 to 1 on them. Damn. How was handicapping even done in the dinosaur days?
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Only about 1 in 4 people bought a racing form. Tips were bet down, so were program horses.
My father did his own track variants starting in the 60's and needless to say he had a huge edge.
Speed ratings against the track record and an archaic track variant that bunched all the races run that day regardless of differential from distance to distance was all that was visibly available to the handicapper.
Beyer figs didn't hit the form until 1989 or 1990 I believe.
Now, with the dumb money gone to slots and lotteries, and track variant adjusted speed figures available to everyone, and a higher collective track takeout, the question is, how can you make money today?
