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208 pages
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The Winning Horseplayer
by Andrew Beyer
Customer Reviews
A serious horse player must read, July 13, 2000
Reviewer: Klinsmann (Kowloon Hong Kong)
The main theme of this book is trip handicapping and a horseplayer who mainly focuses on figures must read. This gambling book will change your mind and ways of thinking. I am actually quite surprise that this book was written over 10 years ago.
A must read., May 28, 1999
Reviewer: A reader
With Andrew Beyers new approach to handicapping, I have grasped the full potential of my own creative handicapping skill. A full out knowledge investment. This book is gauranteed to lead an intelligent player to success.
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64 pages
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The Basics of Winning Horseracing, Fifth Edition
by Whitney L. Cobb
Customer Reviews
A very good book for the beginner., August 13, 1998
Reviewer: A reader
The book provides a great amount of beginner information, for someone who has no knowledge of horseracing. Not for the advanced horseplay.
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256 pages
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Bet With the Best
by Andrew Beyer, Editors of Daily Racing Form
Spotlight Reviews
Good stuff but not new, January 30, 2002
Reviewer: Steven Harr (Chicago, IL United States)
Nine well-know handicappers each contribute a chapter based on their specialty or current area of interest. The book contains useful information, but serious handicappers have probably read it before -- and probably from these same handicappers. The book is a good illustration of how few new handicapping theories or ideas have emerged in the past few years. If this is your first exposure to these handicappers, however, it is an excellent primer, and Andrew Beyer remains the best horse racing writer in America.
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256 pages
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Handicapping 101 : Finding the Right Horses and Making the Right Bets
by Brad Free
Customer Reviews
Handicapping 101 a primer for beginning players, July 14, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
Brad Free put out a nice piece with this little book. It is written concisely and does not overwhelm the reader with data and charts.
While it is selective in the information included the overall result serves a purpose. It provides a basic set for recreational handicappers that can if studied thoroughly can result in more enjoyable trips to the race track.
His discussion of Class, the most often poorly described or discussed area of the art of predicting outcome of races was one of the better that i have read. His emphasis on the inseparable link between horses overall speed and their true ability level was especially helpful. From his narative about personal experiences with handicapping, two things are made clear. His strength is in his writing and in communicating ideas to the reader. His weakness, I suspect, is in his personal handicapping. Don't know this to be true, but I suspect he gets undisciplined and goes overboard at the wrong times reducing his personal effectiveness. Or has so in the past and now is grown. Been there; done that. I think everyone who plays this game does that. Was refreshing to hear an admission of just how much pain there is in the process of learning to consistantly perform well at the track.
Final comment. I suspect that should the recreational handicapper study this work well, more will come away with a little profit regularily and leave a somewhat smaller piece of the pie for the pros to eat.
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