There's no secret to beating the races: You pick bets, not horses. There's no easier way to pick great bets than by making an accurate betting line and comparing it to the actual odds you're being... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Mark Cramer, The Odds on Your Side (Cynthia Publishing, 1990)Widely regarded as the definitive book on setting an odds line in your Thoroughbred handicapping, and for good reason. Cramer, who's authored a number of excellent handicapping tomes, spends a couple of hundred pages on the concept of value and how to achieve it. His greatest strength is his simple asserion, backed up with a number of examples, that there is no mechanical formula to be used; it's different for every race. He illustrates handicapping as art, rather than the handicapping-as-science approach used by many other books. Definitely a work that belongs in the bookshelf of every horseplayer, casual or serious. **** 1/2
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