ABOUT TURFPEDIA

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 onseveral 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.

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