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Many fortunes pass through the windows at race tracks and off track betting facilities and racebooks every day. It is no wonder that so many people around the world try to tap into this steady stream of money. But more often than not, those people that would be richer by the experience are poorer and wiser. Gambling at any facility is like a huge magnet that always seems to suck money in, but never shooting it back out.

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But the race tracks don’t wind up holding all the money. Some of it does make it back out the door in someone’s pocket. The problem is, it is usually the people who don’t need it who win it. In frustration and sometimes desperation people pour more and more cash into the game.

How can you take money home with you after a day of handicapping? There are several ways.

1. Don’t bet and go home with almost as much as you started with, just deduct your expenses.

2. Only bet part of your money and keep a few bucks in your shoe for the long ride home (this may be where the term stinking money came from).

3. Win more than you wager.

If number three appeals to you the most, you’re not alone. If you have a job, you probably go home every week with more money than you started with, if you don’t I’d recommend a change in employers. Let’s take a lesson from life and treat making money from horse racing as a job.

You should expect to need training for a job and also to have some expenses. Some job’s even require you to invest some of your own money on tools or supplies.

We’ll call your program, admission, travel cost as expenses, just like going to work any where else. You have to get there and when you do, you’ll eventually have to eat before quitting time. There is at least one more expense, it’s called the vig or track take-out. It is what the race track deducts from every wager made. Betting costs money.

Like any job, you’ll need training and then expect a reasonable amount of time in which you will make very little or even lose some while you learn the job.

Finally, if all goes well, you can start to show a profit and take home some money from the races. I recommend you bet very light in the beginning and only increase your bets when you are ready and can show a consistent profit. Start with a good system and as you learn how to use it and adapt it to your own style, you will find out if you are good enough to make money or if racing will continue to be just a hobby.

And now, finally, to answer your question, "How to make a small fortune from betting on the horses at the race track?" The old joke says, that’s easy, just start with a large fortune.