Picking Winners : A Horseplayer's Guide

A Horseplayer's Guide

By: Andrew Beyer

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Paperback | 1 May 1994

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240 Pages

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23.0 x 15.4 x 1.8

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A classic guide to handicap strategies in the field of thoroughbred racing.
Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures — it all started with Andrew Beyer. Picking Winners is essential reading for both serious horseplayers and curious amateurs. It is often referenced by stock options traders for insight into the numbers game.

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Mr. Beyer left Harvard to study the Daily Racing Form, write a Washington column on the sport (obsession? - he claims it's not an addiction), and get into the action himself and for a long time he lost at the "toughest game in the world." Here he gives you the benefits of what he's learned about handicapping (not just from books but from talking to all kinds of habitues) and what pays off best: whether it's the appearance of the horse (you can tell by the swish of a tail if he's going to be in there), or the kind of track, or his patterns, or the methodology of his trainers, or "speed figures" (statistics) in which Beyer believes with "religious devotion." It's all there and more - including the fact that both liquor and women have deleterious effects on your own track record. Furlongs of advice and analysis, parlayed into entertaining reading even if you never indulge. (Kirkus Reviews)

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