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Downey Profile: 'Horse for Course' Hasn't Worked in Derby

Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:54 PM
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:54 PM

By Dick Downey
TheDowneyProfile.com

At TheDowneyProfile.com, we utilize thirteen factors more common to Kentucky Derby winners than non-winners, based on our 34-year study, in order to create an objective, weighted-factor predictor of Kentucky Derby success. One factor that we do not use is the "horse for the course" handicapping angle, the one that looks to horses that have run well at Churchill Downs. More

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