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Anyone got any recomendations for racing books for Christmas?
The best racing book I’ve read this year is Horseplayers: Life At The Track by Ted Mc Clelland. Its the 12 month diary of a full time track player at Hawthorne and Arlington in Chicago. Kinda like a US version of Dave Nevisions book but without the bravado, it delves deeper into the darker side of gambling addiction, isolation, the day to day characters he meets at largely empty racecourses, horseracing in rural America, the daily ups and downs etc…It also gives a good account of how racing is funded in the US and the general mentality of the people who play the claiming game over there. Well worth a read.
Its seems like ages since we’ve had a decent book on different approaches to horseracing betting. It seems the output from Potts, Mordin, Stavers, Gibby etc…has to have come to an end, which is a pity.
He gets plenty of stick on here too but that’s more for his (sometimes) off-the-wall speed ratings than anything else. I think anybody who has read his books will tell you that they are well worth buying.
Picked up David Lee Priest’s "Against The Odds" at the Open meeting and haven’t put it down since- the best betting book I’ve read in some time. The author makes me sick, so much knowledge has he accumulated by the tender age of 31. He takes a scientific statistics-orientated approach to punting with fascnating strategies including laying all mares/fillies from February to May then backing them from mid- May to mid-July, both highly profitable.
On the downside there’s a picture of Alan Potts in an anorak on page 175, but into every life a little rain must fall…..If you like books about cognition and how the mind works I really enjoyed "Blink", can’t remember the author.
Ive recommended it once and will do so again
This is a superb read
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Long-Shot-S … 034&sr=8-1
A season at Sussex Downs.
Anyone read fitzs bio yet?
I’d buy one of Mordin’s books and re-read it. I always find something new. So many hidden gems in there.
On the downside there’s a picture of Alan Potts in an anorak on page 175, but into every life a little rain must fall…..
Undoubtedly preferable to a picture of him not wearing the anorak …
There’s a new book advertised in the TRF Classifieds, which blatant self-interest makes me point out.
Dave Nevison has got a new book coming out called ‘No Easy Money: A Gamblers Diary’. I’m always wary of people bringing out a book so soon after there last one, but I did enjoy that, so I’ll probably give it a go along with Mick Fitzs.
Think I’ve been lucky in that the vast majority of books I’ve read have been thoroughly enjoyable.
Really liked Alan Potts’ second book (not read the first so I can’t compare one with the other); the two Mordin books I’ve bought were well worth it. Nevison’s book was good and hopefully the one due out at the end of the week will be as entertaining.
I still wish Jon Gibby had written other books because ‘Betting on flat handicaps’ is by far the best I’ve read on punting. Andy Beyer’s books are certainly informative and offer a different perspective on things.
Due to CarvillsHill’s comment, I’ve just ordered the one he’s read.
He takes a scientific statistics-orientated approach to punting with fascnating strategies including laying all mares/fillies from February to May then backing them from mid- May to mid-July, both highly profitable.
What did he back in the 1,000 gns?
"Blink" is by Malcolm Gladwell, who has just brought out another book in "Outliers". Went to see him do a talk about it earlier this week. Well worth it.
Try
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/n … reets-Boom
It will tell you something about gamblers.
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I do like the looks of Edward Whitaker -In The Frame
Brough Scott’s collected writings (or a selection of) are being published on 1st Dec. May be worth a read.
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