Horse Racing Betting - Blaming Jockeys
June 23, 2008
The best horse racing handicappers in the world do not allow themselves to get distracted by blaming others for their mistakes. This is a waste of time and a futile exercise.
If you have ever done any horse racing betting then you most likely bet on a horse and didn’t get the ride from the jockey that you were hoping for. It’s the same thing in sports betting when you get a bad call like a holding in football, a bad foul in basketball, or a poor strikeout for one of your batters in baseball. To complete the analogy, what good has ever come out of a player complaining about one of these bad calls to the officials?
It’s the same thing when you are betting on horses. The jockeys are riding horses that are going over 40 miles per hour and they have to adjust to making decisions both on the fly and in a very short amount of time. Riders make mistakes and you have to learn how to deal with it.
Kent Desormeaux was scrutinized with how he rode Big Brown in the Belmont, but he did win the Kentucky Derby and beat the Preakness Stakes odds, is a Hall of Famer and has won nearly 5,000 races in his career.
What was he supposed to do? Ride the horse hard from the rail, rendering him useless later on in the race, or settle back and start out from behind the pack? They didn’t really want either of those things, they just wanted Big Brown to win the race and when he didn’t the blame had to go somewhere. However, veterans of the race track know that even the best in the business make mistakes, but bettors have to be accountable for their failed bets or they have no credibility.
I hate being around people who never make a bad selection. It seems like each time these people lose, it’s someone else’s fault, either the rider or trainer. These people can lose a huge part of their ability to handicap because they cry and complain instead of trying to become a better handicapper who learns from his mistakes.
Expert horse bettors take into account the different scenarios of how a race can play out. They look for runners that can adapt, but what they don’t do is scream and cry and blame the riders that they are betting on because they realize that the jockeys have forgotten more about horse racing than most in the audience know.
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