Betting Thoroughbreds for the 21st Century: A Professional's Guide for the Horseplayers Hardcover – August 3, 2009

Beyer speed pars for most tracks and info on how to construct speed figures. Comprehensive coverage of handicapping, such as synthetic surfaces, trainer angles, class drops and rises, maidens, etc.

Love this book. I grew up going to Del Mar and Santa Anita with my grandparents who had a basic understanding of how to read past performances and were willing to teach me. I improved upon the start they gave me by truly learning to read the racing form in college and could typically pick the winner of a race or two throughout a day at the track. That kept me interested over the years, but I was still pretty much guaranteed to come home with less than I went with. Now that I have a little bit of a bank roll I was hoping to do more.This book made a huge difference. I was able to use the information in the book to create a little bit of a "checklist" so that as I'm handicapping a race I make sure I don't miss something. I have gone from avoiding maiden races like the plague to looking for series of races that include them with one of my "Prime Bets" (detailed in the book). This Del Mar season (summer 2015) I ended up hitting a handful of longshots (8-1 and above) that I wouldn't have found without this knowledge as well as a few pick 4's and a monster $3000 pick 5 on a $64 ticket.I would recommend this book to anyone who regularly handicaps races.

This was a gift. The person said it was informative.

I bought this book as a gift for my boyfriend. He works in the racing industry and is very pleased with it. He has not been able to put it down and has taken notes from this book. He has told me that it has helped him tremendously in handicapping. I'm happy that he likes it so much. He has told me that he wants more books of this kind to help him understand the sport more. I believe this book would be recommended to anyone wanting to learn how to brush up on horse racing skills.

I found about a third or less of the book interesting and usefulThe rest were pages of meanless (TO Me) statistics and anicdotal stuff that meant nothing to me.At times the author seemed to be writing for the novest but then it turned into a highly complex bunc h of mumbo jumbo not well ilustrated nor otherwise explained. I consider myself to be slightly more thaqn a novist but in no way up to understanding some of the exotic betting formulas nor even his pace and speed figures although i am familur with them. I have bred owned and raced a couple of thorougbreds that won at baymeadows and longacres(now emrald downs).I still need a much less complex reading book to hold my interest .Bob L

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I don't know if I'll win anymore often at the track, but I really enjoyed this book. Opened my eyes to the many angles to bet the horses. Also taught me how to read a program.

Great book if you like betting on horse racing