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Originally Posted by Thunder Gulch
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.
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Seems like most of the reviews on Amazon are by relatives of the author most likely. The ones like yours giving honest opinions few and far between hence the idea for this thread. I really enjoyed anything by Quinn and Quirin, havent seen anything by either lately. I did read Pizzola. Lots of valid points but he comes across as too much of a marketer trying to sell other services it seemed. I am currently reading "Tropical Downs" the novel by Cramer and have read his contrarian books on handicapping. He seemd to be one of the first "value" handicappers. I used to get Helms pedigree ratings every year but since he retired I switched to "Sire Stats" by Thoroughbred Sports Network which come out each year