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Past Performances that do NOT show the MLO's...?
Hey all,
I am trying to sharpen my handicapping skills and I am sure a good portion of you folks will understand me when I say that while handicapping a race I cannot help but to be distracted and swayed by the morning line odds. They cause me to doubt my choice and or choices of horses that I have opinions on.
I have been trying to handicap without. first seeing the morning line odds. But as you can imagine, this is very difficult for one. I pull the past performances up. my eyes cannot help but to automatically see them. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or any. way at all that I can pull up. past performances. without the morning line odds?
And believe me, it is not like I check my choices and or finalize my opinion on my selections based on the morning line odds, however I cannot deny that my OCD steps in far too often and creates enough doubt in my selections. Once I see the morning line odds this of course throws a wrench in my entire selection process. I'm sure you know how the story goes; You keep your eyes off the morning line odds and you quickly eliminate the horses you confidently know will not win. Then you go through your process and come out with one or two confidently chosen, solid selections. You feel very good about it until, with no conscious effort of your own, your eyes dart to the left and what has been seen cannot be unseen, and suddenly you realize that your top two selections that you felt supremely confident about are 10/1 and 15/1, and even though I chose those horses by my handicapping, and regardless of whether or not I knew the MLO I would have landed on those same horses if following my handicapping process. HOWEVER, because they are revealed to be 10 an 15 to 1, I cant help but doubt them.
Hesitation and doubt should have no place among a confident horse player, or rather, I should say should have no place among a horse player building his or her confidence. There are many factors that can cause doubt and hesitation in one's selections; Too much information is no good and could end up being very detrimental. I also think that too much thought can cause a confident opinion to turn into a doubtful opinion. If you think too much about something, doubt is usually the outcome. It's best to go through your process as usual, make your selections and don't linger on them.
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