You probably already know that class and grade are two different things. But what do you mean when you say a dog is classy or has more class than another dog? If you think that the a dog that is running in a higher grade automatically has more class than a dog that has been running in another grade, I beg to differ with you.

To me, and this is just my own take on it, of course, class is more than WHAT grade a dog is running in. It’s also HOW that dog has been running in that grade compared to the other dogs – and also taking into account several factors in those races. For instance, is a dog that has been running in stakes races automatically classier than a dog that hasn’t been, but has been running in AA?

Nope! It all depends on the makeup of the stakes races and the AA races. I’ve seen stakes races where the dogs were only second-tier dogs, probably just so the racing secretary could come up with enough dogs for the stakes preliminary heats. I’ve also seen AA races where several dogs that had just been in stakes races ran and the races were actually faster than the stakes races had been.

So, when I look for class in a race, how do I do it? Well, I start like most people do, by noting how many races each dog had in the grade its running in and also how many it had in a higher grade. The dogs who have more marks for higher grades get my attention, but I don’t just automatically give them points for class. They have to earn them.

I look at the dogs they’ve been running with – and this is where knowing the dogs at your track comes in. I know off the top of my head which are the “power” dogs at my two favorite tracks. If I see that a dog has been holding its own with any of the top dogs at the track, I know it has class.

I do this for each dog, evaluating the competition, speed and conditions of its races in this grade and the higher grades. This usually winnows down the class dogs to two or three, but sometimes, I only come up with one dog that fits my standards for class and that’s when I know I have a good bet.

Of course, getting good odds on a dog that is far and away classier than any other dog in the race is very often a problem, but that’s why they invented trifecta wheels, right?

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