Aussieplayer
10-15-2002, 01:36 AM
Hey all,
Wow, I actually get to recommend an Aussie book to you!! Well, I haven't actually read it yet - it was released 4 days ago.
Anyway, Dr Hutson, the author, published an article in the New Scientist Magazine, on his findings that observation allowed him to eliminate horses, and that physicality (alone) was not to be used for picking winners, but for eliminating your contenders.
He gets into:
how to assess fatness and fitness of horses
what to watch out for in the birdcage stalls, including pawing
and weaving
the effect of the bit, tongue tie, nose roll, pacifiers and
bandages
the impact of sexual behaviour
what to look at in the mounting yard, including strapper
control, horse posture and gait, sweating, and control by the clerk of the course.
More than 60 variables are described in comprehensive detail. An
analysis of the effect of these behaviours on performance, based on
observation of over 10,000 horses, is unprecedented in the history of
horse racing.
250 pages.
The reason I mention it, depite not having read it myself (& I am not much of a track-goer), is that the author comes highly recommended as very much the "real deal" by a couple of handicapping friends who are 4 figure bettors & state that they have benefitted from his work.
Costs about $20 in your money, not including postage.
Cheers
AP
Wow, I actually get to recommend an Aussie book to you!! Well, I haven't actually read it yet - it was released 4 days ago.
Anyway, Dr Hutson, the author, published an article in the New Scientist Magazine, on his findings that observation allowed him to eliminate horses, and that physicality (alone) was not to be used for picking winners, but for eliminating your contenders.
He gets into:
how to assess fatness and fitness of horses
what to watch out for in the birdcage stalls, including pawing
and weaving
the effect of the bit, tongue tie, nose roll, pacifiers and
bandages
the impact of sexual behaviour
what to look at in the mounting yard, including strapper
control, horse posture and gait, sweating, and control by the clerk of the course.
More than 60 variables are described in comprehensive detail. An
analysis of the effect of these behaviours on performance, based on
observation of over 10,000 horses, is unprecedented in the history of
horse racing.
250 pages.
The reason I mention it, depite not having read it myself (& I am not much of a track-goer), is that the author comes highly recommended as very much the "real deal" by a couple of handicapping friends who are 4 figure bettors & state that they have benefitted from his work.
Costs about $20 in your money, not including postage.
Cheers
AP