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Originally Posted by Actor
Then get a math textbook and read it. When you get to college take a course in statistics.
It amazes me that writers of most handicapping books don't seem to know math. They take pages to explain how to do a calculation that could be expressed in a single formula. Some may be trying to dumb it down for their readers. Maybe they get paid by the word.
Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing is a must read just for the background if nothing else.
The best is Winning at the Race Track by William Quirin. You have to be able to handle the math.
Learn to program a computer. Write your own software.
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Couldn't agree more. You have to learn something about statistics to understand the studies.
Quirin's Winning at the Races is the best I've read. He puts things in language any intelligent person can understand. Guess that's why he's a professor.
