Dave Litfin's Expert Handicapping: Winning Insights Into Betting Thoroughbreds

By Dave Litfin

Book Overview

In the first comprehensive look at thoroughbred racing in years, the Daily Racing Form's handicapping columnist provides an arsenal of new information, strategies, and competitive angles for smarter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316527815
• ISBN13: 9780316527811
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Solid, good ideas and examples

Litfin has a winner with this book. He has excellent form/cycle anaylysis using both "Sheets" style figures and Beyer speed figures. He recognizes and illustrates how to spot several useful patterns and what they mean. In the second part of the book, he takes pattern recognition a step further by dealing how trainers tip their intentions with regards to having a horse ready to run his best race. Overall, there is a lot for the intermediate level handicapper to take from this work and improve his game with.

Very well written, useful esp. for NYRA tracks

Litfin has written a very good book that contains much useful information. Most of the examples in the book are from races at Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga. Litfin also devotes a fair amount of space to the "sheets". If you use Ragozin or Thoro-gragh data, this book is definitely for you. If you play races in New York extensively, this book will give you a greater insight into the three tracks operated by the New York Racing Association.