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...Andrew Beyer is not your normal judge of horseflesh. He is a Harvard man, or at least almost was until he "discovered that the most demanding form of intellectual endeavor exists at the racetrack." The tale of why he failed to get his Harvard degree is a compelling...
...Belmont ended in a tremendous upset with the beloved Kauai King reaching the finish line a beaten animal. The winner was none other than Amberoid who paid $13 and had the solid backing of at least one Harvard student who was in the crowd that day. So Andrew Beyer is either very lucky or a psychic. In any case, he made the right choice in leaving Harvard...
...chapters which separate the men from the boys, the women from the girls and the racing addicts from the occasional players deal with Beyer's Speed Handicapping formulas, a dense set of figures derived from thoroughbred racing's bible, the Daily Racing Form...
...amazing compilation of the past-performance records of every horse running in races at various tracks on any given day. Horseplayers live and die by the immense amounts of information packed into it, basing selections and theories on its vast resources. Not surprisingly, It is the life blood of Beyer's formula's as well...
Central to all systems, however, is the supposed answer to one basic question: how fast can a given horse go? And it is here that Beyer provides some superior insight into how a handicapper can judge past performances and arrive at reasonably accurate speed figures. the key is his explanation of why the speed rating track variant found in the Racing Form is based on faulty correlations and is therefore useless. Beyer circumvents the erroneous derivations of the Form by computing his own speed figures and exhorts the reader to do the same. The process, however, is far from...