Greyhound Winners
Six traps and six greyhounds all of which look pretty much the same to the untrained eye, so how do you pick the greyhound winners at your dog meeting? Well greyhound form is very much like horse racing and greyhounds certainly do have form with many of them shooting out of the traps like the proverbial whippet.
If you’re actually following a BAGS meeting then one great way to pick a greyhound winner without using any greyhound form is on the traps. You can often watch a meeting and see that there hasn’t been a single winner from a certain trap throughout the whole meeting and it’s certainly something to bear in mind if betting race by race. Some punters have a favourite trap, 1 and 6 are particularly popular as the dogs on the edge are far less likely to be bumped about.
Romford is a favourite for trap 1 and it’s said that almost 25% of the dogs running out of it are greyhound winners, regardless of their form. At Crayford you might want to look at Trap 3 for your greyhound winners, another notoriously lucky trap. Although no one can give you reasons behind lucky traps and they may indeed not even exist, we all need an angle, something we think gives us the edge and this might just be it.
But individual greyhounds do have form and paying attention to this can help you pick the best greyhound winners throughout a BAGS meeting. There’s no guaranteed way of picking a greyhound winner, as anyone who has ever placed a losing bet will know, even the hottest tips come unstuck but there are ways to increase your chances by following a greyhounds winning form.
It’s thought that greyhounds generally reach their peek at between two and three years old, after this it’s thought that their winning form decreases so check a dogs age when looking at the form. A young dog may be skittish or unfamiliar with the whole process of greyhound racing, while an older dog might be past his prime.
When taking things like this into consideration, you also have to think about class. If a dog has good form but has gone up a class it’s quite possible that form might change and the same thing works in reverse too, especially as you see older dogs go down in class.
Of course you can also combine the two, just because a favourite greyhound winner run well out of trap 1, it doesn’t necessarily mean that same dog will win out of trap 6.
There are so many things to consider when trying to pick greyhound winners, just try and read the form as best you can and choose your favourite this way. Do what the dog would do and follow your nose for a good return.
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Page Last Updated: 11/03/2009