The third fully updated and revised edition of the book which explains how the author, a professional gambler, finds it more profitable to back the occasional long-priced outsider rather than a high percentage of short-priced favourites. He concentrates on the handicap and applies factors like pace and the draw. His unique methods are developed from American commentators and have produced handsome rewards. His belief is to move away from the old ways of analysing form – who has beaten who, weight carried, winning distances, trainers and jockeys – to look at, principally, draw, class and pace.
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SPORTS/PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY goes on behind the scenes of every race and is a sensible part of the game of every horseplayer. The application of basic human psychology to the activity of thoroughbred handicapping can go a long way to develop expert skill and earn consistent profits at the track. In these pages Prof. Thomas Wilson shares an entirely original perspective on the art of the game that brings to life the past performance data and reveals new dimensions about the “game inside” the mind of the handicapper.
The Psychology of Thoroughbred Handicapping presents fresh insights and habits of thought with entertaining lessons and compiled results from a decade’s worth of behavioral data collected at the track, handicapping contest, and betting parlor.
Discover how knowing the thought patterns of your opponent, the betting public, brings more opportunities to cash tickets with value. Let the crowd make the common human mistakes in judgment and the illogical wager while you use the psychology going on in every race to give you the edge you need to take your game to a new level!
THOMAS WILSON teaches research psychology and statistics to college students in Louisville, Kentucky, and is known around the track as the “Professor.”
Cover Photograph 2006 copyright William McAdow.
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