We quote from ‘A Trainer’s Conditioning Guide to Developing Winning Speed Horses’, by legendary trainer Buddy Fogelson, Chapter 3, entitled ‘SPEED WINS RACES – PERIOD!!’

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“A racehorse without speed is not a racehorse!  In order to compete on North American racetracks, a horse must have at the very least ‘contending’ speed, i.e., the ability to lay close-up early, in sprints as well as routes.  If your horse can only come from off the pace you are very unlikely to earn much purse money since all US and Canadian tracks are biased towards speed.”

While much of the book would be ‘greek’ to anyone not intimately involved in the training game, Buddy provides conditioners with exact instructions on how to develop speed:

1. Your trainee MUST be taught to break alertly from the gate (he presents several ways to do this by using various equipment and ‘treat’ incentives on the horse)

2. You must have your exercise rider/jock hustle with all his/her might directly after the break — horses who are left in the second half of the field after a quarter mile seldom get up to win.

3. It doesn’t matter if your horse fades late in early training — you want to instill the ‘habit’ of speed and once you do, your runner will do all of these things on his own, with very little prompting from the rider.

All successful Owners and Trainers know that their fortunes are tied to ‘SPEED’: Speed in the pedigree lines, speed in morning workouts, speed on raceday.  Regardless of the distance, the vast majority of races run in North America are won by horses capable of showing ‘contending’ speed, i.e., the ability to maintain a position either on or close to the early lead. 

How the Horseplayer can use this knowledge to rack up Consistent Wins

To be a successful handicapper, to rise above the crowd, one must take certain handicapping ‘truths’ as gospel and then design your play around these statistically proven facts:

1) The trainer is the number one most important factor in the outcome of a race – yes, at times, even more important than the horse.  Sharp, high % trainers, the kind we will be dealing with this system, know how to ‘spot’ their stock, i.e., know how to find races where he firmly believes his horse will have a very good chance to win or hit the board.  Correct ‘spotting’ is what separates the men from the boys and women from the girls in this game.

2) Horses that show ‘balanced’ speed will win more races than horses who show just early speed and hope to hang on.  ‘Balanced’ speed means that a horse is able to run each of the first two quarters within @1 to 1.2 seconds of the same time, and the final quarter within @2 to 2.2 seconds of the first quarter – these are the types of horses this system will concentrate on.

3) Stables (owners, trainers, grooms, etc.) often wager on their runners, and spotting significant betting action in previous recent races often signals that a big effort is at hand and this system has the ability to spot that ‘action’!

Specialization:  The beauty of Precision Large Database Research

While all of our programs are valuable for ‘general’ use, Len has designed his 355,000 race database to locate situations where the ROI is highest.  So if you ‘specialize’, or make larger wagers in these areas, your overall return will be greater.  Here are the areas where Mastermind showed the highest overall ROIs.

Claiming Races  from $5000 thru $80,000

6 Furlongs

7 Furlongs

Field sizes of 7, 8, and 10 and over

Morning Line of 5/2 thru 7/2  and Morning Line of 12/1, 15/1 and 20/1

P.S. – Mastermind also works very well in Quarter Horse races, with a win % of close to 39% (Thoroughbred win % for the Primary Contender is 34.7%  Average win mutuel  $8.61)