Bet With the Best: Expert Strategies from America's Leading Handicappers (Drf Handicapping Library)

Same stuff as outline previously only packaged different . Brohammer is the only one making sense in todays handicapping game


Good stuff but not new   January 30, 2002
 17 out of 17 found this review helpful

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.


A Promo for Daily Racing Form   January 21, 2002
 19 out of 24 found this review helpful

The most obvious thing that struck me while reading this book is what they don't write about. Not a single author mentions the Internet, computers, database or handicapping software. All successful horse bettors utilize high-tech resources these days. This book is nothing more than a promo piece for Daily Racing Form. All the authors are 1980's hasbeens - currently on the DRF payroll. As usual, they do not document their claims with verifiable statistics.


Required reading for the advanced "student" of handicapping.   January 2, 2002
 8 out of 10 found this review helpful

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.