Howard M. Bender Memorial S. Willa On the Move S. 6 furlongs on the dirt at Laurel Races Analyzed: 44 6F dirt stakes at Laurel Date Range: January 1, 2013 – Present Sharp Angle: Ranked 1st in Trainer/Jockey ROI Meet Factor Stats: Has won 10 of 44 races (23%, 102.7 ROI%) Or: Won/placed in 29 Read More

Hollywood Derby (G1) 9 furlongs on the turf at Del Mar Races Analyzed: 9 Del Mar G1’s 9 furlongs on the turf Date Range: January 1, 2013 – Present Sharp Angle: Ranked 1st in Trainer Current Meet Factor Stats: Has won 4 of the 9 races (44%), 269% ROI With Hollywood Park now transforming into Read More

Clark Handicap (G1) & Falls City H. (G2) 9 furlongs on the dirt at Churchill Downs Races Analyzed: 7 Churchill Downs G1’s for older males at 9 furlongs on the dirt & 18 Churchill Downs Graded races at 9 furlongs on the dirt Date Range: January 1, 2013 – Present Sharp Angle: Ranked 1st or Read More

Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Dash (G3) 6 furlongs on the dirt at Laurel Races Analyzed: 41 Laurel stakes races at 6 furlongs on turf Date Range: January 1, 2013 – Present Sharp Angle: Ranked 1st in Best Speed Last 3 Factor Stats: Has won 22 of the 41 races (53%) for $127.80 Win ROI In Read More

After providing some angles for the Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita, we’ll continue on looking for angles in weekend stakes races. They’re running the Commonwealth Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday, November 12 and we found a very nice angle for that contest. Commonwealth Turf Stakes (G3) (8.5 furlongs on the turf at Read More

Classic – 10 furlongs on the dirt Races Analyzed: 9 Graded 1 races at 10 furlongs on (including 2013 & 2014 Breeders’ Cup Classics) Date Range: January 1, 2013 – Present Sharp Angle: Ranked 1st in Best Last Speed Factor Stats: Has won 4 of the 9 races (44%) for $24.40 Win ROI The last Read More

There are four Breeders’ Cup races for older runners on the turf. In the first Sharp Angles post we took a look at the Turf Sprint. Today we highlight some potentially profitable factors for the Turf, Mile and Filly & Mare Turf Turf – 12 furlongs on the turf (starts on downhill course) Races Analyzed: Read More

In this week’s Sharp Angles post we’ll take a look at the two Breeders’ Cup ‘fast lane’ contests – the Sprint and Filly and Mare Sprint. Breeders’ Cup Sprint – 6 furlongs on the dirt Races Analyzed: 6 Santa Anita Grade 1 races for males on dirt (including 2013 & 2014 Breeders’ Cup Sprints) Date Range: January Read More

Last week we used Betmix Angler to introduce some potentially profitable angles for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and Dirt Mile. This time we’ll take a look at the four Breeders’ Cup races for Juveniles. Breeders’ Cup Juvenile & Juvenile Fillies – 8.5 furlongs on the dirt (two turns) Races Analyzed: 12 Santa Anita Grade Read More

Betmix Angler was introduced over the summer and has lived up the hype. It’s an extremely powerful handicapping tool, but one that does require a bit of trial and error to yielded consistent results. We’re kicking off a new blog series called Sharp Angles that will put the focus on some winning angles we’ve discovered by Read More

Some helpful new features have been added to Angler, and we have a new video that walks you through a few ways that you can use Angler to your advantage. 1. You can now click one button to see if any horses running today match any of your saved Angles, and print out the report. Read More

To win consistently betting on horses you have to have an edge. Angler will give you the edge you need and so much more… If you are serious about handicapping horses you need to know when a horse is a good bet, or a bad one. What types of races you should play and when Read More

We’ve added some very informative new stats to Angler Analysis in BirdDog. These new stats are all about letting you know how often horses, trainers, jockeys, etc. do what they are supposed to do. You need to know if the horse you are betting on has a history of doing what its supposed to do or Read More

On average favorites win about 35% of horse races.  But, that win percentage can fluctuate based on the distance, surface, class, etc. For example, favorites are more likely to win dirt races than turf races. Another thing that will obviously make a big difference in the win % of favorites is the number of horses Read More

We’ve been hard at work on a fantastic new tool called “Angler”. An angle is simply a trend that has occurred in the past with enough frequency to be profitable that you use as a guide to find bets in the future. More on angles and Angler later…. Our Angler interface is not quite ready Read More

In addition to all of the horse specific handicapping data we compile at Betmix, we maintain data about each race track. You can find some of that information in the Handicapping Journal, and more detailed stats about each racetrack and race type on any individual race page. The handicapping journal shows you very helpful information Read More

There are many great tools in Betmix to help you handicap. Creating a mix (a group of factors and weights) that are specific to a race type is always going to be the best approach. Some people may find that process a bit confusing at first, so to help new users get out of the Read More

Pedigree is perhaps the most important factor in analyzing a horse’s ability to navigate the testing 12 furlongs of the Belmont Stakes. Here are pedigree snapshots of this year’s Belmont contenders: Exaggerator Sire: Curlin (Progeny average winning distance (AWD): 7.59 furlongs) American Triple Crown race winners in pedigree*: Curlin, Seattle Slew, Northern Dancer Like his Read More

The 2016 Preakness Stakes field is comprised of 11 runners, three of whom are multiple graded stakes winners in North America. Handicappers can quickly guess that Nyquist and Exaggerator are two of three. But the third? That’s the Bob Baffert-trained Collected. The City Zip colt captured the Sham Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita back on Read More

There will be several ‘new shooters’ to greet Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist in the Preakness starting gate on May 21. Of those, Stradivari is the lightest on experience but just might be the most intriguing upset possibility. (Watch 2016 Preakness contender race videos on the Betmix YouTube channel) The Todd Pletcher-trainee has but three races Read More