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Originally Posted by GMB@BP
Handicapping books, which seemed so prevalent for so long seem pretty much extinct.
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I think we are at the stage where every major factor has been covered in depth by multiple authors. That makes it tough to come up with new material.
One interesting area might be a book of "exceptions". Certain books have become very influential. What's in them has become accepted dogma. But back in the day most horseplayers (myself included) learned by trial and error. Sometimes people are influenced by personal experience, their own successes and failures, or recency bias. So not everything we think it true is actually true.
We have databases and the resources now to check some of these things against the data. I think within some of the general truths of racing, there are exceptions that are not well understood and handled correctly.
