Rate Gears

Most people realize that race horses are athletes and therefore have to condition their muscles, just like human athletes do, before racing. The people who time the racers as they workout in the morning are called clockers. The clockers not only time the horses and note the distance that they run, but also how hard they were ridden and urged by the rider.Those workout times are listed in the past performances and also online at the track websites or the official site for the past performances. Though they are found all over the racing pages, horse racing workouts are still not well understood by many people, and therefore are an overlooked handicapping tool.One of the reasons that people ignore them or give little credence to them is that “works,” as they are called at the race track, are hard to compare. You can compare horses who have run side by side or have raced in similar races and earned speed figures, but how do you compare a 3 furlong work that was breezing to a 5 furlong work that was rated as handily?The answer is that you