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Greyhound racing software can certainly help you make a full time living from betting on dog races.  But … you have to use the software correctly.  In particular you must set the criteria for selecting the dog correctly and you must stick to your staking plan and not allow yourself to stray from it, you have to be disciplined.  The article below explains more about betting on dogs for a living.  Of all the greyhound racing systems I’ve come across it is definitely the best in my opinion …

The best greyhound software I’ve come across for selecting the winners consistently with a high strike rate is Sectional Timings above.  It really is the best software available, and comes with a database of over 5 years of race times to ensure only the most probable winners are selected for you to bet on.  It really is worth looking at if you want to make a serious, regular profit from the dogs!

Can I Make a Living From Greyhound Racing?

Are you trying to make a living from the dog track? Or maybe you’re just trying to supplement your retirement income or make up for lost income from the tough economic times we’re going through right now.

Whatever the reason, if you’re determined to make money to live on from greyhound racing, you have to treat it like a business. For instance, no more going to the track to have a good time. You have to get serious.

If you look at greyhound handicapping as a career, it’s obvious that you need some training. After all, if you were going to be a truck driver, you wouldn’t just jump into a semi and take off. You’d take one of those three month training courses so you could get your commercial license.

It’s the same way when you decide to be a professional handicapper. You don’t just quit your day job and start going to every racing program. You start out by learning the ropes and getting better at handicapping. Find a mentor, if you can afford it, or a good greyhound handicapping system. Take all the time you need to learn it by using it on old programs. You can download them from the Net.

When you can consistently pick winners, move to picking quinielas. Then learn to pick trifectas consistently. When you’ve mastered this, you’re ready to start - slowly - building up your betting bankroll. When your bankroll is big enough and your bills and obligations are all taken care of, you can gradually slide into becoming a professional greyhound handicapper.

When you reach this point, you’ve even be able to share your knowledge with beginning handicappers. Like many professional handicappers, when you can consistently win more than you lose, you can even write your own systems and handicapping books.

To win at the dog track, you need a winning system. You can learn the basics of handicapping from a program or online, but to really make good money at the dog track consistently, you need proven Greyhound Handicapping Systems.

You can find systems, articles and tips to help you win at the dog track from someone who shares over 30 years of "going to the dogs" at http://ebnetr.com

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Below is an article all about the importance of speed and sectional timings, and how they play an important role in handicapping and finding the winner of a greyhound race.

The best software I’ve found is actually called "Sectional Timings".  It uses 5 years of data on race sectionals to predict winners with excellent consistency.  Click on this Greyhound Racing Tips link to read more about it, and why it works …

Here’s the article discussing the role of speed in determing dog race winners: 

What You Must Know About Speed Handicapping In Greyhound Racing

Speed comes up almost constantly in greyhound handicapping. Why wouldn’t it? Speed is what gets one dog around the track faster than the other 7 dogs. Obviously, if you can figure out which greyhound has the fastest speed, you can pick the winner of any race. But that’s easier said than done. Believe me, learning speed handicapping in greyhound racing can take a lifetime.

I think most of us handicappers start out by looking for dogs with the fastest times in their last races. When we realize that doesn’t work, we may switch to dogs with the fastest "best time" if the program provides that information. Many of them do. But that’s not really a true picture of how fast the dog will run in any race. Even if the conditions and dogs of the "best time" race were exactly the same, there’s no way to tell how fast a dog will run.

The weather might have been different that day. The track might have been soft near the rail or roughed up or particularly hard if the "best time" is a lot faster than the dog’s usual times. Speed is more than just numbers. Speed has to be compared to grade, class and post position. In other words, there’s no way to compare speed between dogs without taking other factors into account.

There are some dogs who are speed demons if they catch a good break, can see the lure throughout the race and don’t get cut off by other dogs. But when they race against dogs who don’t have quite as much speed, but who run the same kind of race whether or not they get the break or can see the lure, these dogs can lose their speed advantage if things don’t go just the way they want them to.

What I mean is that speed only works if the dog also has determination, catches a good break and is able to run where and how it wants. Trying to figure out whether all of this will come together today for this particular dog is the first step to learning speed handicapping in greyhound races.

There are many, many sports betting systems that purport to translate speed figures into a mechanical formula that allows you to compare dogs’ speed ratings between grades, but I’ve never found one that worked. Maybe it’s partly because I’m not big on crunching numbers with a calculator or software when I’m handicapping. But maybe it’s also because you can’t really use prior speed to absolutely calculate today’s speed in a greyhound race.

True, if you look at a race and see that one or two dogs are consistently faster than the other dogs, you’d make a mental note of that as you look at the other factors in today’s race. But you wouldn’t stop right there and play those dogs just because they look fast. You’d keep handicapping and looking for how they’re going to get out, what their running style is and how the other dogs are going to affect them.

So, speed is one factor in greyhound handicapping, of course it is. But learning speed handicapping isn’t the whole secret to winning at the dog track. If it was, we’d all be rich and it wouldn’t take half as long to handicap our programs. Learn to handicap for speed, but then go on to post position, running style, class and the other factors that help you pick winners, quinielas and trifectas.

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