Watching race replays

Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

Improve your understanding of the actual sport

that is the foundation for getting a lot out of replays.

You should make fortune cookies. This stuff is priceless.

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

You should make fortune cookies. This stuff is priceless.

Coach, I got a funny fortune cookie today - "HELP I'M TRAPPED IN A CHINESE BAKERY" - I didn't know what to make of it, but the general tsoa w/ extra hot sauc3 was on point.


watching race replays isn't just looking for "trips" and then shuffling back to your speed figure. Maybe you know this, I honestly don't have a feel for you, other than a pretty sharp sense of humor.

A lot of general horseplayers are like a Stats Geek in baseball who knows all the On base% and Slugging% and goes through the box score, but he never really played sports or took a big interest in the Actual Sport of baseball.

Maybe he bets $$ on baseball. Maybe its in Rotissery or Fantasy...
But he doesn't notice when the pitcher really has to dig down in the glove to grip the splitter. He doesn't know if the pitcher will throw a 2-0 or 3-1 breaking ball.

He doesn't know the tracks - i mean "stadium" dimensions. He doesn't know if the batter hit the top or the bottom of the baseball for that weak ground out. He vaguely recollects something about a hit-and-run and isn't 100% sure about the slugger's intentions.


You look at a race replay and all you see is the Actual Sport of horseracing.

The more you learn about the basics, the stronger your visual interpretation will be.

[ELA]

Kind of surprised by some of the comments here. Anyway, I watch a tremendous amount of replays. Different people have different styles, and people's minds work differently. I watch races everyday, tracks all over the US. If it were harness racing, I think it would be easier -- week to week, # of races watched between starts, etc.

Obviously, replays do not help everyone. Trips? Yeah, OK, maybe -- under a very specific circumstance. Other aspects? Absolutely, again, same circumstance. Obviously, you have to know what you are looking at. I've heard hard-cores tell me that replays don't help them at all. Then they don't know what they are looking at. Great, don't watch replays.

If you learn what you are looking at replays can be extremely valuable. There are many aspects to the game that some people just don't take into consideration, have access to, been exposed to, etc.

Eric