By Jarrod Horak The $100,000 Bertrando Stakes headlines Saturday card at Los Alamitos Race Course, going as Race 9 for California-bred horses aged three and up. The one-mile dirt contest has attracted a compact field of six. After reviewing the pace scenario, speed figures, and track profile, Coach Cronin emerges as the horse to beat. […]
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Belmont at the Big A is not a meet you should handicap with generic rules. The races are run at the Big A, and the setup creates different challenges depending on surface, distance, field size, post position, and projected pace. Dirt sprints, one-turn dirt routes, turf sprints, and turf routes all need their own read. […]
Today’s Racing Digest is designed to do the heavy analytical work that serious horseplayers have always done manually — and present it in a clear, usable format. This page explains how to read the Digest, what the key figures and features mean, and — most importantly — how bettors actually use them when deciding whether […]
The January 30 card at Santa Anita Park is a classic example of why structure and preparation matter more than raw opinions. Several races are shaped decisively by pace and profile, while others demand discipline around price and probability. This is the type of Santa Anita Park card where understanding bias, class placement, and race […]
Handicapping a horse race isn’t about finding the fastest horse on paper. It’s about understanding what is most likely to happen today — under today’s pace, class, distance, surface, and track conditions — and deciding whether that situation creates a bet worth making. That philosophy has guided Today’s Racing Digest since 1970. Long before racing […]
By Jarrod Horak In this how to use Today’s Racing Digest article and video, I discuss how to use Speed and Pace Forecasts to make money at the racetrack. I use the Today’s Racing Digest Complete Digest at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, December 20 as examples (races 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11). Below the […]
Overview:Betting the highest speed figure is easy—and over time it usually loses because the public sees the same number. Fractional Charting from Today’s Racing Digest looks forward, not backward. It projects how today’s race is likely to unfold: early pace, likely leaders, closing strength, and an expected final time for each contender. That’s information you […]
By Jarrod Horak In this horse racing handicapping video, I discuss how to use pace and speed figures to make money at the racetrack. I use Today’s Racing Digest Pace and Final Time Ratings as an example, and this is my third video in my how to use the Digest video series.
By Jarrod Horak In this horse racing handicapping video, I discuss how to use pace figures to make money at the racetrack. I use Today’s Racing Digest Pace Ratings as an example, and this is my second video in my how to use the Digest video series.
How to Handicap Horses With Track Variants It’s important to understand that the recorded time of a race may not be the same thing as how fast it was. This seems like an illogical statement but there are other forces at work. On a given day, the effects of temperature, humidity, wet weather, wind, track […]
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