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Handicapping the Wall Street Way: Picking Xtra Winners at the Track | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Ripple
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 796516
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581501269
Dewey Decimal Number: 798
EAN: 9781581501261
ASIN: 1581501269
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
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Product Description
This guide instructs horseplayers how to apply stock market theories to betting horse races. By studying the consistencies between the stock market and pari-mutuel market or betting pool, horseplayers can gain new insight on how to discover inefficiencies in the betting pool and aid their quest for Xtra winners at the track.
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 Greatest Book Ever April 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best horse racing book ever! I went to the Derby last year and won over $150,000 using the pointers described in this book! Since then I've quit my day job and now travel the country implementing the very techniques in this book. It's amazing! I never thought that two hours reading time would turn in to a fortune! I thought it would take years to learn to play the horses, it only took two hours! Highly recomended read, it will change your life!
Best bang for your buck June 7, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After reading about this handicapping book in an interview Mark E. Ripple did for CBS Marketwatch.com shortly before the Kentucky Derby, I bought it, and was able to coax my friends into making a few online racing bets. The results were fantastic! In that interview, Amy Hoak called Mark Ripple an expert, and I will agree that he certainly is an expert teacher.
Handicapping the Wall Street Way is a very well-written, easy to understand book for novice horseplayers like me. Another one of my friends, who I would consider an intermediate to advanced player herself, said that she could relate to the stock market, financial aspect of it, and it changed the way she thinks about certain types of bets. I have a financial background, and I'd wager that I will start to rethink some of my investment plays as well.
I wasted a lot of money on a lot of handicapping books, and I can honestly say that for $12.95, this is by far the Handicapping the Wall Street Way: Picking Xtra Winners at the Track.
A very basic, excellent introduction to handicapping horse races February 7, 2006
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
If you play the horses regularly you'll want to keep the insights of Handicapping The Wall Street Way: Picking Extra Winners At The Track close at hand: it's a slim handbook but packed with insights analyzing the betting market, the psychology involved, strategies for successful horseplaying at the track, and developing an effective personal risk profile to hone risk and skills. A very basic, excellent introduction to handicapping horse races!
 Quick Read with Some Reasonable Angles December 29, 2005
22 out of 29 found this review helpful
I read the book in about 1-1/2 hours two nights ago. The author is not a skilled writer. Like a lot of horse racing books, he repeats certain information far too much. The book is also small and thin (starts on page 11 and ends on page 82 with blank and significantly less than full pages between. I will not agree with the author with respect to Martingale betting and in over simplifications regarding professional, rational and irrational bettors. The book appears to have been written over a two week period in November 2004.
I think there are some reasonable points raised with respect to ideas such as wagering on Belmont Stakes (bettors caught up in hype), types of races to look for (e.g. 3+ yo vs. 2 & 3 yo), and strategies for certain types of races (e.g. MCl and MSW races). Many books I have read advocate avoiding horses higher than 5:1, but the author has some ideas for higher odds horses (not tried). He also tries to tie the ideas together at the end.
Great Sections, Pleasant Home, Excellent Addition November 3, 2005
32 out of 40 found this review helpful
This book is a beautiful blend of both stock market and handicapping theory. Mark Ripple has the double fortune of an advanced knowledge of both and it shows in "Handicapping the Wall Street Way." He takes the time to explain how to win certain races, and utilize strategies that he developed. I found that extremely helpful. He picked Pleasant Home at 30-1 to win the Distaff on Breeder's Cup day (not in the book; a Las Vegas radio show) and gosh, that was amazing in it of itself. There is a great section on exactas as well. This book pieces a lot of things together for me, and that is the point I am trying to make. Previous handicapping books were fine, but when you tie this one in, you will soon see that past, present, and future books (even this one) are not meant to stand alone, and that one really needs a library of them.
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