Scientific Handicapping: Tested Way to Win at the Race Track

by Ira S. Cohen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137958803
• ISBN13: 9780137958801
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Proven money-winner

Reading other books on the subject, I'm often left with the feeling that the author is a regular patron at the track and knows his horses. However, I don't usually get the feeling that their system is anything more than a series of hunches. Cohen and his co-author look at things from a different angle. While their book came out in the 60's as I recall, many of their ideas show up on today's websites and in handicapping texts from the 90's. Such concepts as a statistical system to compare performances from various tracks are widely used in today's handicapping systems. There may be easier, less time-consuming ways to evaluate the races, but I've yet to find one that gives the user such a feeling of involvement. By making a few calculations and looking for common patterns the reader becomes much more involved in the selections than just spitting numbers into software and having the "winner" be generated. I've used their system for recreational handicapping for 7 years or so, and I rarely lose. I may not go home having doubled my money, but I usually show a profit, and have a lot of fun doing it!