Horse Racing Books ?
 

Is there a book that looks mainly at pick 3 and pick 4's ?
help consturcting them and things like that ?

There probably is.

You mght want to start with Horse Racing For Dummies.

Steve Crist's Exotic Betting.

Exotic Betting by Steven Crist

i read that, anything else ?

Sorry, you ask for "a" book...

If you read it you don't NEED anything else.

lol i think i do.
its not helping, any other suggestions ?

You read books? :zz:

If this book didnt help you, stick to mythical WPS bets. Whatever you do decide to do, no more $250 straight p3 bets, please.

i do read. i just finished baileys book, i had it autographed a few years back he was at the albany teletheater

Barry Meadow's book is excellent for constructing and looking for value in exotics.

There's no way you read that book and it's not helping.

Everyone says it's a classic but I found it boring and outdated. . . I understand the math behind it - it makes sense - but all the strategies were just too rigid for me.

well im not hitting more, i find myself catching 2/3 3/4 a lot more often

That's probably a result of bad or unlucky handicapping. Books like 'Exotic Betting' will give you the strategy, but they're not going to pick the horses for you.

It might help if you actually told us what you wanted to learn.

There is no book about betting strategy that, at this time, is going to help you at all. As you are currently, you can't be helped by anyone other than yourself. Once the entries for a race are even mentioned you have narrowed the race down to one or two horses. You are so phucked up with preconceptions that even if you are a capable handicapper you won't be able to see through the murk to make rational decisions.

You actually seem like a well meaning person, and I'm honestly being nice here, but until you even give yourself a chance to win you will continue to lose day after day. This is not to say that you will ever be able to win, but that's OK because you love the game and will get great enjoyment from playing, but you will learn to love playing even more when you clear your head and look at all the horses racing.

Then you likely are having a problem identifying your "A"s from your "B"s and "X"s otherwise your tickets are too narrow in cost, number of selections per race, no other reasons not to cash I am afraid....


oops a little late on this one he's the knowledgable one on this subject here. Sorry Andy.

Did you hear about the guy that always lost at the track? Week after week, year after year he would never win. He was broke, but decided to go the track and make his bets in his mind.

He lost that too.

i dont really even know. i mainly play pick 3 and 4... once in a while i will throw in a exacta or win/place bet... but when i got to otb, or the track the gameplan is pick 3 and 4...
i dont know what i want to learn to be honest, i find my tickets normally looking like this....4-3-2
or 3-3-3-1, i always seem to catch early, be live to a nice payout and i can never close, cause im never deep in the back end ?

your right, i see horses who ran huge, or maybe that i have cashed on, or anything by giants causeway, and i use them... teach me to break this horrible habit, please
i think im addicted to giants causeway's i scan pp's everynight of tracks looking for anything by him, is that a problem ?

That's not what I heard....

:zz: :rolleyes: try re reading crist book..look up some beyer stuff some davidowitz....

i am going to re read it, starting that tonight when i get out of work

wow

It could be that you're forcing yourself to go skinny towards the end of tickets. When putting together a pick four, sometimes it's tempting (especially for procrastinators) to go wide in the first few legs, while thinking "I'll just single later." A lot of times, that means you have to single a horse that shouldn't really be a single simply because you want to make the ticket affordable.

This is probably because you're glossing over the first few legs. Go back and see if you can narrow down in the early legs. Then reanalyze your single or skinny leg and see if you're forcing yourself to single a horse you don't love. If you do these things and come to the conclusion that there's no way you'll feel comfortable going one- or two-wide in any leg, PASS ON THE SEQUENCE. There will be plenty of other pick threes and fours to play, and choosing the right sequence will save and make you money.

what ?
it is true, i normally look at cali main track ny main... kentucky and florida

i do force myself all the time, i never want to get knocked out early.

If that's the case, then you're looking for action, not trying to make money.

i believe you - it's just strange. . .

i dont know ?

You would have found a nice little exacta in the 4th on Belmont day if you had used the Giant's Causeway underneath the favorite...

BET YOUR OPINION - leave your emotions and fear of losing out of it.

You are. Read what you said again. "I never want to get knocked out early." Getting knocked out early and getting knocked out late is exactly the same if your primary goal is to make a profit.

i had the giants causeway on top.. at 11-1 and used him 3 deep in pick 3's along with jeremy rose horse, and garcias horse

Good Point!
When you go to OTB, do you handicap before you get there or do you do it on the fly? Also are you betting every race going off?

i do it before, i have the drf.com thing unlimited basic pp's for any track all year

impressive. . . that's like 800 bucks

im going to do something for you
cause i like you
i am pm you soon