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Picking Winners: A Horseplayer's Guide
by
Andrew Beyer
A classic guide to handicap strategies in the field of thoroughbred racing and it all started with Andrew Beyer. With a foreword discussing the changes that have swept horse racing since the book's original publication in 1975, Picking Winners is essential reading both for serious horseplayers and curious amateurs.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
May 6th 1994
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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definitive book on handicapping from maybe the most famous handicapper and inventor of the beyer speed ratings. the best book out there if you want to learn basic, logical betting strategies the next time you're at the track. also many tools in here have clear relevance for the investing/trading world (identifying value, calculating expected return vs. risk, etc).
Lot's of knowledge in this book. Of course, I don't recommend anyone "try this at home." I read the book because I moved close to a track that was next to my home and I enjoyed going there as a hobby.
If you want to make a living. Do it elsewhere.
If you want to make a living. Do it elsewhere.
This book taught me more about playing the horses than all the others combined. Great book from a easy to read, organized and lucid writer.
I wrote a review of this book for a horse racing site: http://helloracefans.com/reviews/picking...
Very Good. Excellent for stock options traders as well for insight into the numbers game.
I enjoyed this book and completed it in one round trip Seattle to Chicago plane trip.
Andrew Beyer is really able to bring you in to the mind of a horse player and expalin both the joy and the pain involved in this great hobby. More importantly he has devoted his life to understanding the art of handicapping and is able to convey some important strategies to the reader. Only down side is that this book was written in the mid 70;s and does feel a bit dated.
But if you ...more
Andrew Beyer is really able to bring you in to the mind of a horse player and expalin both the joy and the pain involved in this great hobby. More importantly he has devoted his life to understanding the art of handicapping and is able to convey some important strategies to the reader. Only down side is that this book was written in the mid 70;s and does feel a bit dated.
But if you ...more
I read this book on a suggestion from Jim Cramer to help teach how to play the stock market. It was a very good book; easy to read and understand. Makes me realize how picking winning horses is very complicated and requires lots of experience and time! I won't be betting on horses soon! But hopefully I can use this knowledge to help me pick stocks.......it's still going to take a lot of experience/research/time though.........ugh!
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