My First Day with RDSS

[Ryan.p.coli]

Hi Everyone,

This past saturday was my first time handicapping with RDSS. I have been studying the Sartin Methodology pretty aggressively over the past 6-7 weeks. I have read both Pace Makes the Race and Modern Pace handicapping. I have read through the pace line manual a few times. It takes a lot of practice. I have been practicing pace line selection. I didn't have a windows machine until last week, I have 2 apple laptops. Needless to say, I was pretty eager to get my hands on the RDSS software.

I started out with a loss in the 5th race at Santa Anita... I didn't even have the winner on my radar. In fact, when I go back and look at it, I can't get the winning result with any of the pace lines. Boo Hoo right? Wrong.

Queue up the 6th race.

Paceline Selection:
1. last line. No need to go back to maiden win This is more recent and only lost by a head. Live odds are 4/1
2. Last line. Finished in the money within the last 90 days. Live odds are 4/1
3. last line. Only Dirt race and it is a + race. Live odds are 7/1
4. Last Line- I can make a case for going back to the 3rd to last line, but this one is more recent... and a better indicator than what we can expect today. This is our favorite today, and it is 3/1
5. 2nd line... last line is downhill turf race. This is a dirt race. Live odds are 5/1
6. Last line is only line. Went off at 56/1
7. Second to last line... but I don't expect this horse to be a contender. Went off at 38/1.
8. I got kinda confused here. Horse has not run in over 200 days and it has never run a sprint on the dirt. It also has the highest APV and CR... so that threw me off even more. I ended up putting 2 lines in for this horse, and giving it it's better total energy line. Going off at 6/1
9. Last line. Going off at 6/1
10. Last Line... although I was kind of worried about the 2nd and 3rd lines.. ended up sticking to my guns and held it to a sprint line.