Thanks. I concur with the "bad favorite" approach. I handicap every race from that perspective. I start with the horses that are most likely to be the favorites and then I look for something with odds that can beat the favorites. If one or two jump out, it's a good betting race. BTW, I find this occurs frequently in Maiden races. I find some of my best bets in those races. In the Cradle, it was obvious that there were two horses that were faster than the favorite by a wide margin. So I think it was an "easy" race to bet. However, I'm not sure that I would agree that it was a "good" betting race. Because there were two fast horses and the odds were so low on both of them.