| Everybody likes to have a winner and racing tips have | | | | down to nothing. Many stables set up horses to win at |
| been a good source of winners for many people over | | | | good odds. They are betting stables and after a while |
| the years. Some people sell tips. Sometimes the tips | | | | the word gets round that they are a betting stable and |
| they sell are based on inside information and other | | | | their runners get lots of attention. But they do many |
| times they are nothing more than fabrications made up | | | | things to hide the action when they have a live horse. |
| to separate some poor handicapper from his or her | | | | Some of the ways you can discover how to tell when |
| hard earned dough. | | | | a betting stable is sending a horse to win are in True |
| Tip services have to do a pretty good job because | | | | Handicapping |
| they can't stay in business for long without at least | | | | Just because a horse is bet down below the morning |
| coming close to showing a profit. But let's face it, if | | | | line odds, it doesn't mean that the horse is being bet by |
| they sell you a tip they are also selling it to other | | | | inside money. The public can drive the odds down and |
| people, too. How many people have the same tip you | | | | then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as more and |
| have? If you all bet the same tips how low will the | | | | more people see a lot of money bet on a horse and |
| odds be and what will the bet be worth? | | | | keep betting it more and more figuring the horse is |
| So public services that sell tips may send you winners, | | | | being sent. So it is absolutely imperative that you know |
| but the odds will be so low that the payoffs won't | | | | whether the only people who count, the barn and |
| cover your bets, not to mention the fee for the tips. So | | | | connections, are betting the horse. The biggest tips you |
| overall, tips from services have little real value. | | | | will ever find are on the tote board, but not always |
| In order to be valuable, a tip has to have a very limited | | | | easy to spot. |
| number of people playing it. Otherwise, it will be bet | | | | |