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Horses from KEY Races

Most handicappers call a race from which two or more horses have gone on to win their next race, a KEY Race. It's an indication that the race was unusually competitive. As a result, any horse coming out of that same race should be given some extra credit. We frequently see Key Races in which as many as five (5) horses have gone on to win their next race!

Here's a great example! In the 3rd at Monmouth on 9/12/09, The Cognac Kid finished fifth. Five other horses from that race went on to win their next outing. The Cognac Kid didn't run again until Monday, 5/31/2010. He not only won the 6th at Monmouth on that day, but he paid a WHOPPING $210.20!

Here's another example of how powerful key race information can be, taken from the card at Arlington Park on 9/4/2009.


There were six horses coming out of key races that were running that day. As you can see, four of the six won their race, nearly tripling your money if you bet them all equally. And, as exciting as that may be, it was fairly representative of the long run. We ran a work out for a full month at Arlingtion, from 8/3/2009 through 9/3/2009, and here are the results:

Number of Races Amount Bet Number of Winners Total of Payoffs Profit
192 384 64 916.20 532.20

Even though there were some races with five horses coming out of key races (and obviously, only one could win) these horses won 64 out of 192 bets, for 33.3 percent and an average mutuel of $14.31! And, the $532 profit from $384 bet comes to an ROI of more than 138 percent! You can download an Excel spreadsheet containing the entire workout by Clicking HERE

We are now offering you three different ways to take advantage of horses coming from key races in your handicapping.


The Key Race Book
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This book is tightly focused on just one handicapping subject, the Key Race. The book begins by illustrating a few Key Races, but goes on to document real results using this handicapping tool. Finally, it shows you how to identify horses coming from key races and how to use this knowledge to improve your handicapping results. For more information click The Key Race Book
Key Race Listing Service Every week, usually by 1pm on Tuesday, we provide a listing of key races from a large number of tracks. Along with this, we provide a FREE program which scans your Past Performance file from BRIS, and lists all horses on the day's card which are coming out of races that are on the key race list. For more information click Key Race Listing
Key Finder Program
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Our Key Finder Program allows you to create your own Key Race Listings. With this program you collect exotic results files from BRIS, and run them through the program. It tracks every winner it finds, looks up the last race the winner had and updates the number of winners from that race. Next the program lets you scan the results to create a listing similar to that described above, and finally run a module that scans your PP files for horses that are coming out of races in the list. For more information click Key Finder Program

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