TurfPedia™
intends to be an all-purpose Information resource on Thoroughbred
racing. Besides information, the site will emphasize education and
interactivity.
The
emphases on education can be found under Welcome To The Race Track
and Playing The Races. Beginners, casual racegoers who would like
to know more, and relatively inexperienced handicappers are encouraged
to go first to Welcome To The Race Track and click on several topics
in this sequence: track layout, reading the past performances, types
of races, and types of wagers. The information provided on these basic
topics should serve well enough as an introduction, This section also
provides a Glossary of racetrack and handicapping terms and References
to recommended readings, other information resources, and explanations
of basic racetrack resources.
Playing The Races presents in-depth treatments of the wide array of
Ideas and methods applied by well-versed handicappers every day at
the racetracks. The material is intended to help racegoers and handicappers
at any level of interest to improve their results. The material is
comprehensive and detailed. Interested visitors are encouraged to
review the contents in manageable increments, as if digesting chapters
in a book. "Simple Techniques" are procedures that can be
learned and applied by racegoers fairly well in relatively quick time.
The material includes a popular technique for rating horses on early
speed called Speed Points. Early speed is important in most races
and Speed Points is a powerful way to assess it.
"Leading Methods" describes the ideas and procedures of
speed handicapping, class evaluation, pace analysis, form analysis,
trip handicapping, key statistical approaches to evaluating trainers
and sires, and other approaches to handicapping that successful players
can use. The material is suggested for serious handicappers and is
intended to guide users to an intermediate level of proficiency.
The remaining sections of Playing The Races deal extensively with
applications of the basic methods, Applications can be highly varied,
and finely nuanced, and dozens of familiar and unfamiliar situations
and special topics should prove provocative and instructive, even
to the most experienced of hand 1 cappers *
Today At The Races is both a link to the Daily Racing Form's entries,
results, and other information about today's races, and an opportunity
for the TurfPedia™ handicappers to comment on the day's featured
events. All Grade 1 stakes will be discussed, as will many Grade 2
events.
Horseplayer
Diaries will provide continuing coverage of Thoroughbred racing's
signature events. We'll track the three- year-olds en route to the
Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown, the summer-fall racing to the
Breeders' Cup, and the juveniles of summer and fall. "Weekly
Reports" will keep racing fans and handicappers up-to-date on
the happenings at the major tracks of the East Coast, Midwest, and
the West Coast. "Report From Paris" and "Report From
London" will supply the same information from the two most influential
centers of European racing. The foreign reports will appear weekly
from March 1 until November 30.
The Home Page will present headlines, sub-heads, and regular columns
written by TurfPedia's™ handicappers. The headlines and sub-heads
are intended to tell, not only which horses won, but also whether
the races were strong, average, or weak.
For regular handicappers, the Home Page will provide a link to "Tom
Brohamer's Figure Service," a subscription service that offers
speed & pace figures for the races of southern California only.
The weekly service also will provide pace expert Brohamer's Horses
To Watch.
Under "Sound Off" in the Player's Exchange, racegoers and
handicappers can advise us of the additions and modifications they
would prefer. We hope to see you at TurfPedia™ every day.
James Quinn
For
more information, Please contact
me
