What is handicapping???

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What is handicapping???

Answer 1

Handicapping is the attempt to determine exactly how each horse will do in any given race.  Bettors as well as track odds-makers and even jockeys will handicap races... they look at everything from the horse's past performances, trainer's statistics, jockey's statistics, horse's running style, breeding, the surface of the race...

here's a wikipedia article on handicapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicappin...

and here's a section of the NTRA website that has a lot of info to help you learn to handicap and become involved in horse racing: http://www.ntra.com/ntrau_index.aspx

Answer 2

In horse racing handicapping has two different definitions:

First: Handicapping is the term for trying to determine the winner of a race by analyzing the past performances of the field

Second: Handicapping a race (as in the Santa Anita Handicap), is assigning weights to the horses in the race as to equalize there chance of winning.