| From PowerPoint presentations to graphs, charts, and | | | | losing. |
| other visual aids, everybody is looking for a fast way | | | | So you must have a system that you use to compare |
| to make comparisons in life. | | | | the runners in a race. The next thing is that you must |
| Why should it be any different at the race track | | | | be able to compare those runners of the odds on the |
| where quick decisions in the heat of battle have | | | | tote board and make some pretty fast and accurate |
| serious financial consequences? It is real money you're | | | | decisions based on their chances of winning as |
| betting and you are trying to make money and show a | | | | compared to the expected payouts. That is where the |
| profit on the horse races with your decisions. | | | | "Ladder" a new visual aid, comes in handy. |
| When you are in the pressure cooker and have to | | | | After you have used whatever system you use to |
| make that quick decision, wouldn't it be nice to have a | | | | compare the runners, draw a ladder. I like to use graph |
| quick and easy and clearly spelled out way to make | | | | paper, a fresh sheet for each race so I have plenty of |
| the comparisons and decide if you are looking at a | | | | room for notes that I will look at after the race or at |
| good bet? | | | | the end of the day. Next, draw a regular ladder on the |
| The problem is that the factors in handicapping are | | | | sheet of paper and give it lots of rungs. Now take |
| weighted. Some are more important than others and | | | | your absolute worse horse and put it at the bottom of |
| you must decide how much of a factor each one | | | | the ladder. Next, take the second worse and put it up |
| plays. First of all, let me say this, if you aren't using a | | | | the ladder. It doesn't have to be on the very next rung. |
| good system to compare the horses and consistently | | | | Look at the handicapping factors from your system |
| looking at the same factors, then you don't have a | | | | and then decide how much better that horse is than |
| prayer of winning money at the race track. It is that | | | | the one below it. Do this for each horse until you have |
| simple. | | | | all the runners on their proper places on the ladder. I |
| Ask yourself this? Is there anything else you can do in | | | | always work in pencil so I can erase and make |
| life without having a d good system or method that will | | | | changes as there are scratches and I spot different |
| be consistently successful? Of course not. One of the | | | | things, like a horse that is overheated or looks real dull |
| secrets to happiness in life is learning that there is a | | | | in the post parade, etc. |
| right way to do things and when you find something | | | | Now give yourself enough time to look at the odds |
| that works, stick with it. If you could go to the race | | | | and your ladder and decide which horse(s) based on |
| track day after day and win money doing the same | | | | its place on the ladder and the rungs between it and |
| thing, would you do it? | | | | the others, is really a good bet. I guarantee this simple |
| There are a few people who are thinking to | | | | visual aid will amaze you and your handicapping will |
| themselves, that sounds boring. Well which is more | | | | move up to a much higher level, not to mention that |
| boring, winning consistently or losing consistently? | | | | fact that you will improve the more you use the ladder. |
| Obviously, winning consistently is a lot more fun than | | | | All it requires is a consistent system and practice. |