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A Horse Racing System Based On A Statistical Approach To Selection And Staking - Horse Racing Selection and Staking based on... A Horse Racing System Based On A Statistical Approach To Selection And Staking - Horse Racing Selection and Staking based on Statistical Analysis (Paperback)
Lucky Lew
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Horse Racing systems are notorious for working for short periods of time or over historical data but they always seem to start to fall over when you start to place money on the selections. This is usually because of back fitted results and the systems producer having no background in statistics and probability. It has also been identified that horse racing punters are quick to pick up on anomalies which slowly erode the odds and value. The system explained in this book is very different to the selection processes of most systems as it takes into account statistical analysis and horse racing truths which have held constant over time and makes money from them. This Horse Racing System is consistent, easy to follow and profitable. It is all of these things because the rules for it are not subjective and are all based on statistical analysis. It also uses at its heart principles and statistics which have been known to all horse racing punters, but it uses them to profit.

Odds on Favorite (Paperback): MaryAnn Myers Odds on Favorite (Paperback)
MaryAnn Myers
R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of Old Friends - A Home for Retired Thoroughbreds (Hardcover): Rick Capone History of Old Friends - A Home for Retired Thoroughbreds (Hardcover)
Rick Capone; Foreword by Michael Blowen
R867 R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Save R159 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Training Thoroughbred Horses (Paperback, Reprint ed.): Preston M Burch, Alex Bower Training Thoroughbred Horses (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
Preston M Burch, Alex Bower
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Southbound (Paperback, Edition ed.): Jason Beem Southbound (Paperback, Edition ed.)
Jason Beem
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"There's a line that runs alongside our ordinary lives, just beyond the grind of things. Jason Beem's novel Southbound derails your ordinary life and shoots you into the thrill, rush, and dark brutal truths of gambling and racing. And he doesn't flinch. A glorious and visceral book. I sweat reading it."-Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Dora: A Headcase.

Based on author Jason Beem's own painful journey with a gambling addiction, Southbound follows Ryan McGuire, a horse racing announcer who faces his gambling demons on a daily basis. Just one bet could cost him everything...his job, his friends, his fans, his girlfriend, and even his own life. Despite knowing that all he loves is on the line, he succumbs to his vices and his life quickly spirals out of control. He's on a straight path southbound to rock bottom and only he has the power to stop it.

"A gritty fearless portrayal of a man in the midst of a gambling breakdown. A relapse to end all relapses. It's as horrifying as it is intense and written with a lean sharp eye."--Willy Vlautin, author of The Free and The Motel Life

"Jason Beem's Southbound begins with the drama of a close horse race - and it never lets up from there. Beem has written a smart, perceptive novel - one that is about the difficulties of addiction and recovery - but also about the yearning for love, and the ways people fill the vacancies in their lives. It's saturated with the sensory joys of the race track, and a pleasure to read." -Pauls Toutonghi, Pushcart Prize winning author of Evel Knievel Days and Red Weather

California Chrome - The Race To Immortality (Paperback): Michael Keneski California Chrome - The Race To Immortality (Paperback)
Michael Keneski
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just Another Race Horse (Paperback): Marion N. Seidel Just Another Race Horse (Paperback)
Marion N. Seidel
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born to win his owners money, "Just Another Race Horse" follows Sonny's journey through the world of thoroughbred racing. You'll cry, as Sonny talks about his experiences with the dark side of horse racing - where being drugged, overworked, and exploited is considered normal for many horses. You'll cheer as he experiences his rescue at the hands of a compassionate horse person. Do you love horses? Want to enjoy his second chance at life? You've got to read Sonny's story.

Horseplayer II - Longshot Strategy and Angles (Paperback): Bill Peterson Horseplayer II - Longshot Strategy and Angles (Paperback)
Bill Peterson
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Horse Racing Handicapping Books 1-4 - Angles, Tips, Advice, Handicapping Help (Paperback): Bill Peterson Horse Racing Handicapping Books 1-4 - Angles, Tips, Advice, Handicapping Help (Paperback)
Bill Peterson
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Getting Down - An Unveiling of the Horse Racing Industry: Its Insiders, Workers, Patrons, and Me (Paperback): David Nalick Getting Down - An Unveiling of the Horse Racing Industry: Its Insiders, Workers, Patrons, and Me (Paperback)
David Nalick
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Getting Down" is not a typical racetrack story. Seabiscuit, Swaps, Man o' War, John Henry, Secretariat, and Zenyatta may well be mentioned, but this story is about the people of racing, not the horses. It's about racetrack workers, on both the back and front sides of the track. It's about racetrack owners and managers. It's about those who own the horses and train them, and it's about the people who ride them. It's also about the people who pay to go to the races - the patrons, including the rich and famous, along with the not so rich and famous, all the way down the economic ladder to the out and out homeless.

The above categories include some of the strangest, meanest, most dangerous, most pathetic, most ruthless people on the face of this earth. Yet, my list of characters also includes some of the nicest, kindest, most generous, funniest, happiest people one could ever hope to meet. And since this book is also about me and my over fifty yeras working in this industry, I'm going to let you decide in which of the above categories you think I might best fit.

"Getting Down" is about "getting down." The term, getting down, is racetrack lingo having to do with the process of successfully putting one's wager on a given horse, in the right race, before getting "shut out." In other words, it's about successfully making one's bet before the race begins and betting for that race But the scope of this story is, as you will see, much broader than that. Indeed, it is a story about life, because in one way or another, ine one form or another, life itself is about getting down.

History of Old Friends - A Home for Retired Thoroughbreds (Paperback): Rick Capone History of Old Friends - A Home for Retired Thoroughbreds (Paperback)
Rick Capone
R567 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Explore the history of Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Horseplayer - A Winning Strategy (Paperback): Bill Peterson Horseplayer - A Winning Strategy (Paperback)
Bill Peterson
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How badly do you want to be a successful horse player? Are you passionate and ready to step up to the next level? Start by thinking of yourself as a horseplayer and think of playing the horses as a business. Bill Peterson has been playing the races for decades and will guide you race by race through the process of finding the right races to play, evaluating the runners, creating a hierarchy of probability, and finally, matching the right win or exacta bet to the race. This is not a book of theory, but an actual workbook that will teach you the complete process. You will learn to avoid some races while playing the races that you have a chance to win. Learn to handicap the race to determine each horse's ability and then match the right betting strategy to the race with this complete guide.

America's Long Distance Challenge II - New Century, New Trails, and More Miles (Paperback): Karen Bumgarner America's Long Distance Challenge II - New Century, New Trails, and More Miles (Paperback)
Karen Bumgarner
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
America's Long Distance Challenge II - New Century, New Trails, and More Miles (Hardcover): Karen Bumgarner America's Long Distance Challenge II - New Century, New Trails, and More Miles (Hardcover)
Karen Bumgarner
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency in Sports Turf (Paperback): Jeff Haag Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency in Sports Turf (Paperback)
Jeff Haag
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency in Sports Turf (Hardcover): Jeff Haag Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency in Sports Turf (Hardcover)
Jeff Haag
R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thoroughbred Yearling Selection based on Biomechanics - Modern conformation levering (Paperback): Ross Brunt Thoroughbred Yearling Selection based on Biomechanics - Modern conformation levering (Paperback)
Ross Brunt
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

You will never look at a Thoroughbred yearling or racehorse in the same way.
Based on bone structure, muscle and levering. This book explains the key body parts, and how they apply to distance-gearing, ability, athleticism, etc. Begins with the basics in layman terms building the reader's knowledge and confidence, and only then moves on to advanced detail.
Learning how sets of bones function such as the elbow and shoulder joints, wither and stifle-set, fore and hind, and much more. Simply explained with images to help the learning process.
Purchase yearlings with the critical 'racehorse specific' traits. Identify yearlings as potential precocious 2yos, early types that will train on or, improving classic types. Quickly spot obscured weaknesses and strengths that many experts miss.
Thought provoking and innovative. The book is not based on the traditional veterinary or classic textbook theory - you may not agree with everything you read, but it will get you thinking.
Written side by side with a trainer specifically to be understood by those who are coming from a basic conformation/levering knowledge base.

Under The Grandstand. The Five O'clock Rainbow & Eclipse and His Shoes Blues (Paperback): Jim Lyons Under The Grandstand. The Five O'clock Rainbow & Eclipse and His Shoes Blues (Paperback)
Jim Lyons
R612 R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Save R94 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Those who have lived - not just witnessed - the efflorescence of a pivotal culture moment never see the world through veiled eyes again. Jimmy Lyons was there, devising wholly original inventions of words and music while the Beats, the neo-folk troubadours, the post-bop jazz shooting stars, and the tie-dyed psychedelic rockers were scorching through the underbrush and opening new paths of creativity as alternatives to the increasingly bottom line-driven mainstream. Lyons, though, wasn't content to find a niche in one countercultural movement or another. He kept moving, observing, and writing new poems, stories, and songs. But he never gave up on the wry sophistication of the classic American popular song. Indeed, he has dedicated himself to infusing the same hallowed forms perfected by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and others, with his singular fantasias of ingeniously colored and textured wordplay.

These plays have a subtext only Lyons can provide, derived from what he calls the "rituals of the road" and the "the circular rhythms" of the race track, the beats and pulses of everyday American life that rarely raise a ripple on the surface of American culture. Lyons hears the screams and dreams of his countrymen and woman; from them he creates new modes of expression. He has been changed by each of his open-hearted an open-eared encounters, and this body of work is his way of making those changes sing and swing. - Derk Richardson

Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse (Paperback): Dorothy Ours Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse (Paperback)
Dorothy Ours
R434 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The moving story of a tough little horse, a gifted boy, and a woman ahead of her time.
The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the jockey's father, trusting the boy and the horse that the British nicknamed "the American pony" to handle a race course that newspapers called Suicide Lane. There, Battleship might become the first American racer to win England's monumental, century-old Grand National steeplechase. His rider, Great Britain's Bruce Hobbs, was only seventeen years old.
Hobbs started life with an advantage: his father, Reginald, was a superb professional horseman. But Reg Hobbs also made extreme demands, putting Bruce in situations that horrified the boy's mother and sometimes terrified the child. Bruce had to decide just how brave he could stand to be.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the enigmatic Marion duPont grew up at the estate now known as James Madison's Montpelier--the refuge of America's "Father of the Constitution." Rejecting her chance to be a debutante, denied a corporate role because of her gender, Marion chose a pursuit where horses spoke for her. Taking on the world's toughest race, she would leave her film-star husband, Randolph Scott, a continent away and be pulled beyond her own control. With its reach from Lindbergh's transatlantic flight to Cary Grant's Hollywood, "Battleship" is an epic tale of personal drive to test one's own true worth.

Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing - A History of the Great Weight Carriers (Hardcover): Melanie Greene Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing - A History of the Great Weight Carriers (Hardcover)
Melanie Greene
R835 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R152 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Thoroughbred Female Families That Have Dominated The Racing World (Paperback): Sarah A. Montgomery The Thoroughbred Female Families That Have Dominated The Racing World (Paperback)
Sarah A. Montgomery
R2,480 R2,310 Discovery Miles 23 100 Save R170 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a Special Edition of Volume 1 with updated information on the Female Families. In this book the Author shows you by example the Powerful Female Families Nicks that have dominated the Racing World See how the Great Man O' War and Secretariat where bred to produce the Outstanding Champions they where and many of the other Greats Included in this book are updated colored pedigree charts and illustrations, showing the female family nicks and how they produced outstanding results in the racing world Also shown is the DNA haplotypes and haplogroups of the female families and how they can affected the result of your female family nicks. Learn how the Champions where bred, to give you the best chance of breeding your own champion, be ye a beginner or increase your knowledge for the seasoned breeder.

A Thoroughbred's Dream (Paperback): MaryAnn Myers A Thoroughbred's Dream (Paperback)
MaryAnn Myers
R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Guide to the Lexington and Harrisburg Yearling Sales (Paperback): Carl Palumbo A Guide to the Lexington and Harrisburg Yearling Sales (Paperback)
Carl Palumbo
R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written for buyers of standardbred yearlings, "A Guide to the Lexington and Harrisburg Yearling Sales," contains almost 300 pages of information that has never been published. The author has created a metric to measure the success of the 5,685 horses sold at the Lexington and Harrisburg Sales from 2008 through 2010. Yearlings from these two sale venues must earn a minimum of $50,000 as two-year olds in order to be considered successful. The author provides a multitude of charts which illustrate the highest success rates in the production of these elite performers among sires, broodmare sires, crosses, farms, consignors, raced and unraced dams, price, birth order and much more. The data is detailed by sale venue, gait and gender. The information and analysis will be invaluable for the prospective yearling buyer. Stan Bergstein said it best in his review of Carl's previous book "Profiles of Two-Year Old Standardbreds Earning $50,000 and Up" "If you are interested in being an informed buyer, if you like playing the percentages in your favor, if you want to operate with something more than a wing and a prayer when picking yearlings, then you had better go to the sales with a copy of Carl Palumbo's valuable and excellent work close by..." The Lexington and Harrisburg Sales are highly competitive. Only 7.1% of the horses sold from 2008 - 2010 earned $50,000 or more at two. Using this book can increase the chances of getting that elusive, elite performer and provide an edge over other buyers. Going to the Sales without this book is like going to the races without a program. Chapter listing: Chapter 1: Success Rates by Sale Venue; Chapter 2: Success Rates by Price Range; Chapter 3: Success Rates by Hip Number Range; Chapter 4: Sire Success Rates; Chapter 5: Consignor and Farm Success Rates; Chapter 6: Broodmare Sire Success Rates; Chapter 7: Sire - Broodmare Sire Crosses; Chapter 8: Success Rates of Raced versus Unraced Dams; Chapter 9: Success Rates by Age of Dam; Chapter 10: Grand-dam Production; Chapter 11: Success Rates by Birth Order.

The Ultimate Harness Racing Formula - The only HANDICAPPING SYSTEM you will ever (Paperback): Peter Joseph The Ultimate Harness Racing Formula - The only HANDICAPPING SYSTEM you will ever (Paperback)
Peter Joseph
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through years of experimenting and altering the formula has produced more WINNERS, EXACTAS, TRIFECTAS, and SUPERFECTAS than ever before. And now after field testing the formula and reaping the rewards Joseph Peter has decided to share it. As you will find out, you don't need bogus tips and results from tipsters for 12 tracks. Instead, all you need is good information from one track to have a successful night. What does this translate to? Actually winning money.

The Other Side of Horse Racing (Paperback): Philip Nork The Other Side of Horse Racing (Paperback)
Philip Nork
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thundering hooves. Shouts and cheers Quickly spoken words and moments of anticipation. Flashes of the lean creatures as they go by being directed by focused riders in colorful silks. That unmistakable scent of dust and horse. And the lure of money, lots and lots of money.Many people enjoy the sport of horse racing. Then there are the others, those who go too far. Bobby Tucker is one of them. Once he was a casual fan, but then something came over him- 'the fog' is what his father, an ex-gambler himself, called it. 'Your demon' is what someone else tells him he needs to get under control. A friend tells him the truth, "You're an addict, a simple gambling addict and you're sick." Only one old man, long since dead, can help Bobby understand The Other Side of Horse Racing. But can he escape it?

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