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)
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--and it all started with Andrew Beyer's Picking Winners. This edition features a new foreword in which the author discusses the changes that have swept the sport since the book's original publication. Picking Winners remains a classic in the field of thoroughbred racing.
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