Someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)

Usage examples of handicapper.

ERNEST BELAIR, 22 Argos Blvd., Special discount for fellow Health Handicappers.

The battle between handicappers and trainers is none the less fierce for being conducted in gentlemanly and largely uncomplaining reticence, and perhaps tonight you will capture a whiff of that unrelenting struggle.

It never actually happens, but handicappers dream about it in their softer moments.

Unser Fritz is a most successful handicapper, a hand-icapper being a character who can dope out from the form what horses ought to win the races, and as long as his figures turn out all right, a handicapper is spoken of most respectfully by one and all, although of course when he begins missing out for any length of time as handicappers are bound to do, he is no longer spoken of respectfully, or even as a handicapper.

He gambled successfully, worked as a private handicapper for several small stables, and opened his own book when betting shops became legal.

It’s gotten so bad that the handicappers are talking about making entirely new categories for Danvers hulls.

Inside, they carried Grand National winners, champion hurdlers, all-conquering handicappers, splendid hunters: the aristocrats among jumpers.

Another summer complaint, a matronly female, about a forty handicapper, was off her game for a month after Doggy drafted her to chaperone a pelvic exam on a young lady suspected of an inflammatory disease.

He is a scholar, a moral historian, a shrewdly observant technical analyst, and a skilled handicapper.

The way he saw it, the handicapper had been suffering from semi-blindness and mental blocks to put Tiddely Pom into the weights at ten stone seven, and all punters who didn't jump on the bandwagon instantly needed to be wet nursed.