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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Equestrian & animal sports > Horse racing
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.
"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
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.
"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.
Explore the history of Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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