THE MOST BASIC OF ANGLES: get your hands dirty and wade into the PPs.
You can usually find the time to handicap one race a day.
I'd suggest going to one of the free PP sites and
printing up the PPs for a race that you will have a chance to watch.
As you probably know DRF has their one free Formulator race of the day. This link below will get you a free PDF for the a free Racing Form handout, which is probably available at your local ITW called "Winning Techniques."
http://www.suffolkotb.com/pdfs/drf/W...niques2004.pdf
IMO this is the best readily available primer for reading the DRF PPs.
You can access other free PPs at :
http://horseracingfans.net/handicapp...formances.html
These are usually BRIS Ultimate PPs which are very good. There are explanations for there PPs at:
http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/static.cgi?page=library
The real message is start getting a little practice BUT after the race spend some time doing your post mortem. Look at the PPs of the winning horse and you'll start to notice YOUR OWN ANGLES!
Actually there are few new angles out there; there are just old angles that have been circulating since the cavemen first started betting on those little prehistoric horses back in the day.
One big thing you already have going for you is that you know of Steve Byk.
Listen to him. He is THE RACING GURU!
Steverino, nice work on the Steven Foster on Saturday!