Beating a BC favorite

Originally Posted by zippyneedsawin

To me, it means identifying a likely post time favorite that I think is likely to lose.. the bigger the favorite the better. In general, I usually apply this philosophy when making Pick 3 and Pick 4 bets. Obviously, when you can eliminate for beat a heavy favorite, that creates a lot of 'dead money' in the pool, thus boosting the payout.

I still dont understand. If you have 10 horses in a race, you are trying to beat 9 others with the horse than you think is going to win. Who cares what the odds of the other horses are as long as your horse wins.