posted July 3, 2008 at 16:05 in Triple Crown Betting Trends

Many horse betting fans in this game put their nose up on the concept of breeding and tend to brag that after a race or two, all the breeding stuff goes right out the window but that kind of thinking can prove faulty at times.

Granted, pedigree snobs are out there and what they profess to know is really a lot of theory wrapped about performances, sprinkled in with money sires, but they don’t call this game the Sport of Kings for nothing and the everyday horse race betting enthusiast should acquaint himself with some basic bloodlines that win races on a consistent diet.

In America there are many instances that prove that the pedigree on the bottom side projects to success on the track but before we cite those examples, consider what was happening this past weekend in New Zealand.

This is an international sport and horse bettors that just bet with their heads in the sand are missing the big picture so try to expand the horizon and consider the unique history trainer Brian Smith chased at the Sunshine Coast.

He saddled siblings Scattergun, Blood ‘n’ Bones and Double Or Nothin in listed feature races on the very same day. It’s very rare tosee this kind of a family but the queen dam Unbeleevable won her only start so there is some perfection in her history.

For the record, Scattergun did the best finishing second, Double Or Nothin was scratched and Bones was out of the money.

In the states, there are a couple of families that immediately come to mind to prove that horse bettors have to look to breeding to get that extra winning edge.

Consider the world-class family that the dam Toussaud has dropped. That mare won several Graded stakes including a Grade 1 on her way to an over $550K career but what she has done in the breeding shed overshadows her days on the track by a long ways.

She has foaled 7 runners and 6 won. The worst of the crew is Chiselling, who took the Grade 1 Secretariat in Chicago and made over $400,000 in only 10 outs.

Two lesser lights she also foaled are Decarchy and Honest Lady. The former earned over $700,000 and the latter won 4 Graded stakes and nearly $900,000.

The two stars, wait a minute, they are all stars, are Belmont Stakes winner and near $2 million earner Empire Maker and near $2 million earner and Arlington Million hero Chestnut House.

Two foals that horse bettors should wait to open like a huge Christmas present are Mesmeric and Gateway, foals of 2004 and 2006 who are waiting to start their racing careers as Toussaud offspring.

If this kind of pedigree watching is boring, so be it. Study by hard working horse bettors produces profits and the other stellar family that has excelled of late is from the dam Better Than Honour.

All 4 of her foals to race have won. Her first foal only lost once in 4 outs, the foal of 2003, Jazil, took the Belmont Stakes on way to an $900,000 bankroll and Rags to Riches upset Curlin in that very same race just last year.

The best may still be yet to come, as Casino Drive is unbeaten in 2 starts and was eyeing a fight against Big Brown but came up sick.

Horse bettors have to remember they are playing against each other and the guys that go the extra furlong as far as research is concerned succeed.

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