The Secret Of Horse Racing: How To Win Big Bets At Claim Races

Claimant breeds are often seen as the bottom of the barrel in Thoroughbred racing. These are races where anyone can claim (or purchase) any horse that enters the race for the designated claim price.

The higher the price claimed, generally, the better the horse. If you have a horse running in $60k claims races against a horse running in $8k claims races, most of the time the $60k horse will win. That’s a pretty broad explanation, but for the purposes of this article that’s all you really need.

Now here are 3 tips you can use to make some money in claim racing. While nothing is 100% guaranteed, these tips really do work and can sometimes lead to big wins.

Tip #1: The Double Drop. This is very powerful. What you’re looking for are horses that have one or both of their last two races for DOUBLE the claimed price of today’s race. So if today’s claimed race has horses available for $5,000 and a horse has been running for $10,000 or more, this is a play. A very good play would be a horse that has been finishing last but showing a bit of speed early in the race.

Tip #2: Follow the claimed horses. A claimed horse means it was purchased, this is indicated by a lowercase letter C next to the price. A great angle is to look for a purchased horse that runs about 2-3 races over the amount claimed and runs the bed. It is then moved back to or below the original claimed price. This is a powerful angle!

Tip #3: First time in a claim race. In this angle, you will be looking for a horse or horses that are entered in a claim race, but have never done so before. They should have been running in Allowance races or any race where they weren’t for sale. If this race is their first time “running for a tag”, that is, in a claim race, you have a great play. Look for horses that are going to post at odds of 3-1 or better. You’ll enjoy some good wins with this horse racing tip!

So next time you’re out on the track, look for any or all of these angles. I guarantee that you will have your money in a live play that can sometimes offer very good odds. It doesn’t have to be rocket science. Just logical.