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Originally Posted by Travis Stone
I'm refreshing the beginners handicapping course I teach at the local community college. Last year we spent one night talking about various handicapping angles, both good and bad. I wanted to toss the question out to DTers so I can maybe toss a few more angles in here or there to the course and keep it somewhat new to the regular attendees.
So if you wouldn't mind, what would you consider to be the most powerful (both positive and negative) angles in handicapping?
For what it's worth, here's what I would put:
1. Distance cut-back
2. Second-time starter off even debut
3. O2X (From the Sheet guys)
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This sounds like a really cool course. More specifically, to your point #2, I'm usually impressed with a horse who may break poorly first time out but makes up some ground while finishing midpack. i don't want them just passing tired ones, but legitimately closing and showing some late interest once they get their head straight.