I was just a kid when I started going to the horse track, in fact, some of my earliest memories are of watching the legs of the horses go pounding by through the rails of the old Narragansett Park. That track and many of the horsemen I met back then are long gone, but the memories linger. One horseman who was particularly memorable was a tall red haired gent who always wore a fedora. Back then, many men wore hats, in fact, it was rare to see a man not wearing a hat in public. Red, as he was called, not only wore a stylish hat, but also always wore a suit and looked like the picture of success.
He was good at picking winners and many other handicappers would consult with him before they made their bets. It was common knowledge that he used a system called, “The Topper,” but no one knew exactly how it worked or could pry that information out of him.
Each day, as he left the track, he would buy two racing programs for the next day’s races. That was about the only expense he ever incurred at the track because many people insisted on buying him a beer or a sandwich in order to get a tip on the upcoming race. Sometimes Red didn’t have to spend a dime all day because the same people he’d helped out with the results of his Topper system, would often buy him a ticket on the horse it picked.
When he arrived at the track with one of those racing programs in hand, he very rarely had to pay his own way in because someone else who was walking through the gate at the same time would usually insist on paying his way in. Being a perfect gentleman, Red would usually reward their kindness with a tip on one of the races.
Oftentimes, you could hear voices in the crowd saying, “The Topper system picks these two as the top horses, but it is so close between them, it is hard to tell which is best, so Red says go by the odds.”
While Red’s Topper horse racing system was pretty good, it seemed to often pick two horses that were very closely matched. Red would often caution that since those two were so closely matched they might burn each other out in a furious battle and one of the other contenders would win. It was amazing how often Red was right, either one of the top two horses his system picked would win, or that other horse would take advantage of those two being so closely matched and steal the race at the finish.
Red was known to have his losing streaks, like any of the other players, but he also got hot at times and seemed like he was almost clairvoyant. When Red was losing, the other players cursed bad luck, and when he was winning, there were lots of smiles in the payoff line and lots of backslapping, too.
It wasn’t until many years later that I finally cracked the code of the Topper system. I was looking through a magazine and saw a picture of a well dressed man in a fedora. The caption under the ad read, “Look like Mr. Success in a Topper.”
It was then that the whole mystery clicked. I thought of the two programs Red always bought and wondered why he only returned the next day with one. Here is what I figured out, each day Red bought an extra program that he took home. He cut or ripped out the top three or four horses, according to the morning line odds, for each race. For each race he would place the scraps of paper with the names of the top four horses in his fedora and then pull two out. They became his top horses. Of course, since they were in the top four of the morning line, they really did have a good chance of winning.
He would then circle their names in his other program, the one he was going to take to the track the next day. By keeping his selections among the top three or four horses in the morning line, Red managed to have a high win rate or to at least have a horse that ran very close. By saying that it was between two horses, Red managed to cover a lot of ground.
If you want to see how successful the Topper system is, try it yourself, just for fun of course. You’ll soon find that you have a few winners everyday and though you may not make a profit from it, it will have its good days, just like Red.
About the Author:
The most consistent horse racing systems have to have the basics and a handicapper must understand the basics. I have been around horse racing for 50 years including as an owner. Without the basics the rest is not going to do any good. If you want to learn how a horse owner and insider handicaps just go to http://williewins.homestead.com/truecb.html and get the truth.
Bill Peterson is a former horse race owner and professional handicapper. He comes from a horse race handicapping family and as he puts it, “Horse Racing is in my blood.” To see all Bill’s horse racing material go to http://williewins.homestead.com/handicappingstore.html , Bill’s handicapping store.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – The Topper System for Picking Winners at the Horse Races, a Free System for Fun
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