What did you learn this year?

[TheSpyder]

Another year about to close. What is amazing about this sport of handicapping horses is you're always learning.

What handicapping angle did you learn or found useful this year?

For me it's how I apporach the PP's. Quite simply, starting at the bottom of a horses PP and working up as the first thing I do has shown to give me a real feel for what the horse will do today. It takes some time, but, it puts the horse's PP's into a perspective that I can work with. Only after doing that do I look at everything else. Because I'm usually looking for long shots, I find this way I see things I may not, even working down a horses form, instead of up.

What about you?