Betting Online On Horses – The Blowout

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One of the main online horse betting and handicapping concepts has to do with the condition of a horse as he comes into a race and one way of evaluating that condition is examining the work pattern of the runner.

Active horse bettors in California have been spoiled over the years because they way they record workouts there is probably the best in the country. If there is a gap in the published works of either a first-time starter or a comeback runner is it more likely that a work was truly missed because of a setback rather than the fact the experienced clockers at the track ‘missed’ the work.

Back in the early 1980s when I was trying to understand the intricacies of the sport, I chronicled the work patterns of every trainer in Southern California and for the purposes of today’s discussion, we’ll glance at the great work done by Hall of Fame legend Charlie Whittingham.

A head trainer for nearly 50 years, he handled Ack Ack, Ferdinand and Sunday Silence, all who earned Horse of the Year honors.

The ‘Bald Eagle’ as he was affectionately called, seldom pushed his runners early in the career and he won with a first timer about every time a Blue Moon showed up but the tip off to a ‘go’ for his runners that I discovered was when he put a ‘blowout’, a sharp 3-furlong work, into his runner right before a race, usually two or three days from the event.

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