Have you ever looked at a race and thought it was just too easy to handicap? Maybe you've seen a program with more than one race that looked very easy, almost as if someone picked the horse they wanted to win and wrote a race just for that horse, also giving it the best post position? Over the years, I've seen this happen and each time it did happen there was a surprise in store for the bettors.

Now sometimes, as the foolish saying goes, "It is what it is." But when a race is very easy to handicap, the winner usually pays very little because everyone can easily see the obvious choice to win. However, when you add up all the easy races you've handicapped over the years and look at whether you are ahead or behind on them, you'll probably find you have lost a lot of money because when the obvious horse wins, it doesn't pay much, and who could figure out that the long shots that won were going to win?

For that reason, I call these races, "sucker," races. Which is exactly what they are. The suckers take the low price and celebrate when they win as if they just picked a 30-1 winner. They are stunned every time one of the sure things they bet on doesn't win, as if it never happened before in horse racing.

Let's face it, horse racing handicapping is tough and if the setup races don't jump out at you and make you sit up and ask, "What's going on here?" then you are bound to lose your bankroll.

Whether they are intentionally set up or just accidentally come out that way, they still stink. My advice is to pass them by. It is too hard to find good bets and to figure out when the favorite will run into some bad "racing luck," and fail to hit the board, and when it will win easily.

If you see a whole card of such races, I would suggest that maybe, just maybe, someone who writes the races got bored and decided to have a little fun, but beware, because it will be expensive fun for the bettors.