This article is about how to grasp the basic rules of winning and these rules are simple. But once understood they’ll help the player a great deal. Most players in racing don’t grasp fully that it’s not about winning, but about profiting. Hence, a main law of the game is: to profit you must win, but simply because you win doesn’t mean you’ll profit. The game isn’t about winning but profiting. There are four possible results in racing which is the same in general as in life. (a) Lose: you invest $100 and you lose $100 or no profit. (b) Win #1: you invest $100 and you win but you get back $50 or no profit.

Also: (c) Win #2: you put in $100 and get back $100 and so you breakeven or no profit. (d) Win #3: you put in $100 and you get back $101 or more and you profit. The first three cases is what you don’t need. You only need the last case. The last case isn’t easy because you can’t win every race and no single factor or system is 100% efficient. Racing’s complex because you’re dealing with two animals: horses and humans. The odds are small but the game’s complex.

It takes time to decipher racing even for the experts and it can take years to find the loop holes so as to make an extra buck. The player must strengthen their probability of winning. There are a few ways to do so such as: (1) The more horses you put on your ticket even at random in any position the higher your chances of winning. (2) The stronger your handicapping method(s) the higher your chances. (3) The more your ticket costs in general the higher your chances. (4) The better your ticket format is constructed the higher your chances.

Also: (5) The higher your ticket probability the higher your chances. (6) The greater your statistical understanding of racing over a 3-10 years length of time the better your chances. (7) The better your PROFITCAPPING skills the much better your chances. Odds and percent are probabilities of something happening or not. (8) The higher your ticket strength the better your chances. When these rules are used as one they make profiting all the more likely. Each rule when followed strengthens your playing skills. Remember that racing’s made of two major divisions: handicapping and profitcapping. Handicapping is to predict the outcome of Order Of Finish Positions (OFP).

Profitcapping is to predict how much profit can be made from In The Money (ITM) positions. This doesn’t make racing easier but it does make profiting more probable. This simple law holds and need to be kept in mind: the amount of track breakage, track percent take and track taxes are irrelevant. What matters is how much profit can be made from the payouts. This is partially how to grasp the basic rules of winning.