Even so, one can find a few handicappers who make a pretty good living at the track.

Handicappers put the left's chances at even money or better.

Both candidates and the handicappers say the race is too close to call.

Learned the gambling end from my father, the best handicapper in the business.

"But, you know, it's the better players and the lower handicappers who can get away with that," she said.

The speed handicapper says you try and figure out how fast the horse can run.

In life, Nixon was famed as a 20-20 political handicapper.

Hopkins, who came into the game as a handicapper, was an early believer.

Most handicappers and bettors will approach the race the same way.

Two things are certain: Since luck is unpredictable, the handicappers will be wrong in more than one case.

Neither handicapper, though, likes the horse to whom he gave the better number.

At the time of his death he was officially rated 122 by the British handicapper.

Many successful handicappers also use money management systems similar to financial investment professionals.

But he is perhaps better known for being a leading horse-race handicapper from 1975 to 1989.

But handicappers still came away with a horse they could fall in love with.

I wonder if this is also true of the handicappers: their losses make them philosophical.

Thus they become the touts and handicappers for a race that never ends.

The worst handicapper is one with a human bias.

I talk to a few of the serious handicappers, the ones who say they come to Belmont only to bet.

He's high on the handicappers' short list of mayoral contenders in 2002.

Republican handicappers make several predictions based on these events.

Many handicappers think "Return of the King" is a favorite for best picture.

Where 20 reporters had been expected at last month's dinner in Manchester, 200 appeared - handicappers all.

Many factors can influence a political race, and every handicapper has an equation for predicting.

"We are not sending the right message to our most important customer, the handicapper," Jones said.