Horse Racing Picks

Oh the smell of the dirt and the horses and the fans and the horses! What are the top horse racing tracks and where the heck are they? We watch horseracing on television but do those announcers EVER tell us where the race is? No, they usually say it once when you’re in the kitchen getting your chips and beer before the race begins. If you miss that, you’re out of luck, but here, we are proud to tell you where they are and why they’re tops. We picked out four here and we’ll tell you why we like each one of them.

Churchill Downs/Kentucky – The home of the Kentucky Derby, this horse track is full of wealthy ladies with big hats with Mint Juleps in one hand and Burgoo Stew in the other. Opened in 1875, the vision of Col. M. Lewis Clark, who also won here as a jockey, Churchill Downs has grown over the years in popularity. In 1902, Matt Winn who bought the failing track was actually incorporated in 1942. Years went by until 1980 when CEO and President, Thomas H. Meeker demanded expansion-he got it. In 2005, the $121 million dollar renovations were complete including revamping the grandstands and clubhouse. This racetrack is full of history, but mostly, we like the idea of the computerized advanced deposit-wagering set up in 2007-easier for us to bet at home since we can’t afford tickets to actually go there.

Belmont Park/New York – Who doesn’t like New York? It’s the apple state, oops; we mean it has a city nicknamed The Big Apple. That alone is great for apple lovers, but we love this track too. This 430-acre track in Elmont, NY has two super seasons, one from April to July and the fall season in September and October. This too is home to one of our favorite races, The Belmont Stakes, part of The Triple Crown. The track here is 1- miles in length and even though they claim they can fit 90,000 people here, they only have 32,941 seats so most of us who attend will be standing. You should be exceptionally well dressed to get into Belmont Park, even if the parking is only four bucks. They will let you bring in coolers for your beer, but only if you aren’t sitting with the wealthy people and for our betting or should we say losing convenience, this track has ATM’s on the first, second, third, and fourth floors-nice!

Hollywood Park/California – Wow, who doesn’t like Hollywood! That’s exactly what we thought, but we really do enjoy this track. Opened in 1938, old Jack Warner of Warner Brothers Studios must have liked horses and betting on them-he also enlisted a lot of Hollywood types to invest in Hollywood Park. It was used as a storage facility from 1942 to 1944 because of WWII, the big one, and a fire in 1949, put it out of business until it’s reopening in 1950. In 1951, Citation became the first million-dollar horse winner here and we bet he was proud! This track was the first to offer exacta wagering in 1971-something we are fond of. In 1973, another $3 million was offered up for renovation purposes. Where do you think all your bets go? The rack track itself is 1 1/8 miles and is awesome to see. Off-site betting in Del Mar, San Bernardino, and Ventura came along in 1987, and this used to be the home of the world famous Breeders Cup! In 1994 it’s further renovation of $20 million gave this park the class it needed and if you don’t want to bet on a horse race-there’s a casino too and we like that!

Santa Anita/California – Well, they say California is sun-filled with surfer happy people who say "way wow," and are everywhere-that’s just part of the reason we like it here. Another reason is that this track opens every year the day after Christmas-so ask for cash this year! While you can’t bring a Frisbee, fly a kite or wear your rollerblades at this track, it will be the home of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup-a first for this track. It covers 320 acres and a complete equine hospital (that’s a horse hospital if you didn’t know). You don’t have to dress up here if you get box seats, but if you shell out $7.50 you can sit in the clubhouse-but you have dress up there and if your Grandma is 62 or older, she can get in free on Thursdays! We liked it here because there are friendly people who will explain to you how to bet or you can read one of their information-full brochures on how to wager!

All of these places have great horse racing tracks and if you have only watched horse races on TV, don’t fret, now that you know what it’s like to visit these tracks, maybe you can just make an offsite bet and stay at home with your beer and chips.

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Understanding The Horse Racing Results

When your horse racing software properly outlines every horce racing result, it is a sign that its a reliable one. Here are some common figures and stats that you often see in horse racing software:

CourseDate TimeHorse OddsPosProfitBank
Catt 01-01-200814:30Rapscallion1.76229.691030.20
Ling 03-01-200813:35Dushstorm1.011-0.301041.25
Ling 04-01-200814:20Aigle Dor2.001-78.69935.45

Course

The is the first thing that you would see in a horse racing result list. In this column, you will find abbreviations of these horse racing venues such as Catt (Catterick), Extr (Exeter) and Ling (Lingfield). Knowing where the races are is very important information because each track has its distinct qualities which could really determine the outcome of each race.

Date

The dates of the horse races.

Horse

This is a very important column in the horse racing result because you will find the names of the horses that will likely win in that particular race. In the example above, the software predicts that Rapscalloin will likely finish second in the race at Cattrick on January 1, 2008. Meanwhile, Dushstorm will likely finish first in the race at Lingfield on March 1, 2008.

Odds

In a horse racing result, these numbers are particularly interesting because you would know a horse’s chances of winning in the race. The higher the odds, the higher the probability that your horse will win. Aigle Dor’s odds (2.00), for example, of finishing first are very good. However, there are many factors to consider. Sometimes, betting in a horse with the highest odds of winning may not be too profitable. Because of the poor competition in a particular race, odds may be overestimated. As a result, the software will put all its investments on that particular horse. There are scenarios where the winnings are divided and you would be earning less than you are supposed to. Its a double-edged sword. But most of the time, the races are competitive and the odds are stacked evenly among the horses.

Profit

This is the part of the horse racing result that you should take note of. The profit column shows you your winnings for a particular race. In the example, Rapscallion is predicted to finish second in the race at Cattrick on January 1, 2008. Now, it can happen that the horse may not finish first, but still you can earn some money. The example shows that if Rapscallion would indeed finish second, 29.69 will be added to your betting bank as profit.

Bank
The last column in the horse racing result simply shows how much money you have in your betting bank.

You can never go wrong when your betting system gives you all the information that you need. You can always be sure that your investment is in the right hands when your software gives you a horse racing result that is easy to understand. After all it is your money that you are concerned about, not the horses.

By: Delrick Mckay

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THE RACE CARD

If you are new to horse racing the race card is a very daunting piece of paper. It is full of numbers and abbreviations that just seem to be thrown onto the paper. You see people sipping cups of coffee in the caf scouring these numbers and symbols for hours. What do they mean and how can you make sense of them? Although a simple guide this article is designed to teach you what each part of the race card means and how to interpret this information.

The first piece of information we come across the date of the race, the race track (Beverley) and the time of the race (14:15). Next is the sponsor of the race (Racing UK) and the type of race. There are many types of races such as handicaps, claiming stakes, chases etc some of these are where the horse just runs with no jumps, others are where the horse has to jump fences and others are where the horse has to jump fences and water. All these factors come into play when selecting a horse. Then it is the prize fund for the race, the restrictions on the race, in this case the horse must be 3 years old only to be applicable to run in this race and the class of the race (class 5).

Below this is then the number of horses that will run in the race and the going. The going is merely the condition of the race track ranging from soft to good to firm or standard if it is an all weather track.

We then go onto the actual race card and the first number that we come across is the saddle number. In flat races there is also a number indicating the draw. This tells us where the horse is going to be lined up at the start of the race. In most situations gate 1 is on the inside so nearest the barrier and the largest gate number, in this case 9, is furthest away from the inside. The horse in the outside gate i.e. 9 is normally furthest away from the first turn so therefore has a longer distance to travel making it more difficult to get to the front of the race.

The colored tops indicate the colors that the jockey will be wearing during the race. These relate back to the stable in which the horse comes from.

We then have the form of the horse. Each of the numbers indicates what position the horse came in the previous races. If we take Coalite as an example we can see that in the last 6 races the horse has finished 053600. Where we can see a 0 this means that the horse finished 10th place or lower. If there is a more detailed breakdown of the previous races you may see an F, UR or PU. Basically these mean F = Fell, UR = unseated rider and PU = the horse was pulled up. Occasionally you will a – sign. This means that the horse has not run for a season in this country.

The next column shows the name of the horse, where the horse is from and the number of days since the horse last raced. After the number of days since the last race you may see a variety of letter such as C, D, CD & BF. These indicate if the horse has previously won at this course (C), previously won at this distance (D) or both CD which means a race the same as this one was one by this horse. If there is a BF next to the horses name this indicates that the horse was a beaten favorite in its last race.

The next 2 columns indicate the age of the horse and the weight carried (stones & pounds). The weights of each horse are different as they get imposed with different weights dependant upon their last races. The additional weight carried by the horses affects different races in different ways.

In the last two columns we have the trainer of the horse and the jockey that will be riding the horse in the race.

Already you have a lot of information and it can start to get confusing if you don’t know what it all means, can’t it? Well, read on

What To Look For
Choosing what is important in selecting a winner is open to opinion, but there are some basic rules you can follow.

Clearly, the horses with the better form have a greater chance of continuing that form in this race. It does not always happen this way as the going of the track and the weight of the horse may have been favorable in the previous races.

Horses which have not run for a long time clearly lack recent race experience, but you need to keep two things in mind. Firstly, the horse may have been running overseas (especially those marked with Ireland, France or some other country after their name) so although it shows the horse has not run for 120 days that is only in this country. Secondly, although the horse has not run recently, that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been training hard in the stables. However, recent experience is always a good sign, especially if the horse did well in its last one or two outings. What you see on the form listing is the last 6 appearances for that horse.

In addition if the race is a Chase or National Hunt or any other race, then ideally you want to see some experience of that kind of race and not just a lot of NH flat races or All Weather Flat races (although, at the end of a day, a win is a win). This information can only be found by accessing the internet.

Finally, the course and distance guides tell you a lot about the horse and its chances of winning. Look for re-assurance that the horse has experience at this distance and course. It isn’t the be-all and end-all, but if a horse is already looking better than the others in the race and it is the only one with decent course and distance experience, it should make you feel a bit more comfortable.

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There has always been a conflict in Japan between the desire of the authorities to ban gambling and a determination among people of all classes to gamble. Horse racing, boat and bicycle racing are popular forms of gambling, along with playing pachinko slot machines and mahjong.

Gambling with cards also takes place, although it does not seem to be so popular as it was in former times.

Although the ancient Japanese aristocracy used to entertain themselves with card games, they did not tend to play for money, and the games did not spread to the lower classes.

However, in 1549, when Francis Xavier landed in Japan, the Portuguese crew of the ship he sailed on introduced the 48 card Portuguese deck to the Japanese. This sparked a fashion for gambling with playing cards in Japan until 1633, when the authorities cut off all contact with the outside world, and banned foreign imports and influences, including European-style playing cards.

Various home-grown card decks were produced, grew popular and were then banned by the authorities in a continuing attempt to prevent gambling.

It was out of this period when the legitimacy of playing cards was contested by the state that the Hanafuda style deck was developed, consisting of twelve suits of four cards each. Instead of being based on a European-style number system, the twelve suits are each governed by a particular flower that is associated with a month of the year – hence the name, "Hanafuda" or "Flower Cards".

In the Meiji Era (1862-1912) the government adopted a more permissive attitude towards gambling and gaming. Then, in 1889 the Nintendo corporation opened its doors and began to produce hand-made Hanafuda cards, and later on, mass produced cards, which they continue to produce to this day.

The most popular game played with Hanafuda cards is called Koi Koi. Players compete to match cards in their hand with cards on the table and get bonus points for making special combinations. However, as the game does not readily lend itself to gambling, a faster game was developed by the Yakuza, and their gaming parlours became popular resorts for urban gamblers.

However, towards the end of the Meiji era, government policy changed and gambling was once more made illegal.

The ban on gambling was even more strictly enforced during the Second World War but no sooner had the war finished than various forms of gambling began to flourish again, including games using the Hanafuda deck.

One example of such a game occurs in the first volume of the Gambling Legend Tetsuya comic series by Sai Fumei and Hoshino Yasushi (Shonen Magazine Comics, Kodansha, 1997). Tetsuya, the mahjong-playing hero of the series, begins his gambling career by playing a Hanafuda card game at night in an illicit gambling den in the chaotic aftermath of world war two Japan. In the game he plays, called "Uichokabu," the cards are assigned number values according to their designated month of the year. Cards for November and December are omitted and the object of the game is to get closer to "9" than the dealer. The player places bets at a level of his choice and gets to call for another card or to stick, just as in Black Jack. The dealer plays four players at a time, each gambling on his own cards.

Tetsuya soon moves on to playing mahjong, and the rest of the series is about the vicissitudes of his fortunes at the mahjong table. It seems that the post war mahjong boom put Hanafuda gambling in the shade.

Today, with the emergence of video games and other forms of entertainment, traditional Hanafuda card games like Koi Koi are played less often than before, and mostly as a form of entertainment at home or with friends. Nevertheless, Nintendo continues to produce a range of Hanafuda decks alongside its range of video games products.

A typical Hanafuda deck consists of 48 cards which measure about 55 x 35 mm in size, considerably smaller than European playing cards. A typical Hanafuda card is made of paper pasted onto card. The back of the card and the frame on the front is either in black or red ochre. Nintendo’s highest quality set, the "Daitoryou" deck, comes in a smart plastic box with a picture of Napoleon on the top.

Many Hanafuda fans now play various video game versions of the game, including those produced by Nintendo. Moreover, the popularity of the Internet has now made information about Hanafuda more widely available, with Google recording over 150,000 pages related to Hanafuda at the time of writing this article.

Author: David P Hurley

David Hurley lives in Hiroshima, Japan, where he teaches English and writes about manga, mahjong, hanafuda, shogi and other Japanese games. He also runs a website which ships Japanese games, manga and other goods to customers all over the world. For more details visit: http://japanese-games-shop.com

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