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Originally Posted by MISTERGEE
Admit I am sucker for reading books about handicapping. I am sure most on here know all the famous good ones by Beyer, Davidowitz, etc.. But, how about some sleepers of good books youve read on the subject, or some real losers. I will start off with to me a loser, "How To Win The Pick 6" by Steven Kolb. This book has mostly rave reviews on Amazon.Com so it could just be me but it is the worst horse handicapping book I have ever read. I am starting to wonder about those reviews on Amazon. Are they shills? Anyway though this could be a good way we could all find about about some good reads or avoid some bad ones.
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I wrote a lot of Amazon reviews on handicapping books, and have read 25 or 30. In general, Quinn's works are solid in fundamentals and certainly worthy of reading. The pace material by Brohammer, Pizzola, and Hambleton is all solid and worth a read. My favorite author is Marc Cramer because he takes a contrarian approach to most everyone else. He wrote several that will have you thinking more about finding value after you go through the fundamental nuts and bolts process of picking winners.
Losers: Pedigree Handicaping by Stich wasn't good...Helm's pedigree book was much better. Go for the Green by Heller was written for somebody who never picked up a racing form....Ragozin's book offered almost nothing from a handicapping perspective.