Bet with the Best: Expert Strategies from America's Leading Handicappers [With Racing Charts (50) Are Included)]

by Steve Davidowitz

Book Overview

This is the most comprehensive book on handicapping thoroughbred horseracers that has been published in over a decade.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970014708
• ISBN13: 9780970014702
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Daily Racing Form
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Packs a Punch

Bottom Line: Excellent book, well worth the money. You can go blow $20 bucks on an overbet favourite or buy this book.The book is packed with a tremendous amount of information from various specialists. I would pay $100 for this book without hesitation.I did enjoy some chapters more than others. Quinns chapter on conditions and class is truely brilliant. By far the best in this book. I will keep reading it over and over until I commit it to memory.I also enjoyed the chapter on value handicapping. A real eye opener and thinker.Beyer is great as always.I was a little disappointed with the chapter on pace. Very simplistic.Overall a no-brainer. Just like Funny Cide in the Derby. Hehe.

Andy Beyer is The KING !

I am a professional handicapper and I would have to say that Andy Beyer is by far the Godfather of Speed Figures to me.Everything andy writes is GOLD. He understands that there are many multiple factors in horse racing to consider.I would say you can't go wrong with an Andy Beyer Book. Its well worth the price.Best Regards to All, MC - TheStickRules.Com

Bet with the best

A quick overview of each authors specialty,good reading and allows you the chance to learn all different angles of handicapping.

Good stuff but not new

Nine well-know handicappers each contribute a chapter based on their specialty or current area of interest. The book contains useful information, but serious handicappers have probably read it before -- and probably from these same handicappers. The book is a good illustration of how few new handicapping theories or ideas have emerged in the past few years. If this is your first exposure to these handicappers, however, it is an excellent primer, and Andrew Beyer remains the best horse racing writer in America.

Required reading for the advanced "student" of handicapping.

I'm of the belief that one can never learn or read too much about the intellectual excerise which is handicapping. This book is must reading for any serious handicappers who want to take their "game" beyond the traditional contender-selection level. Of special interest to me were the sections by Crist, Litfin, Shuback, and, my person favorite guru, Quinn.