What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view?

[Bill Cullen]

What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view? Here I'm looking more for originality and uniqueness of the methods than just number crunching. A book where after looking at the spot plays therein you find yourself saying a number of times, "Hey, I never thought of that before."

Thanks,

Bill C

[RaceBookJoe]

Originally Posted by Bill Cullen

What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view? Here I'm looking more for originality and uniqueness of the methods than just number crunching. A book where after looking at the spot plays therein you find yourself saying a number of times, "Hey, I never thought of that before."

Thanks,

Bill C

Jim Adkinsson (sp?) had an interesting one called " The damndest, craziest, longshot getting book" or something like that. It was a nice slant. I used to lean more on spot plays that made sense from a logical point of view, then some of the "bet the grey horse" type things. rbj

[ranchwest]

Originally Posted by Bill Cullen

What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view? Here I'm looking more for originality and uniqueness of the methods than just number crunching. A book where after looking at the spot plays therein you find yourself saying a number of times, "Hey, I never thought of that before."

Thanks,

Bill C

If you haven't read Quirin, I'd recommend starting there before moving on to other spot play books. Quirin doesn't match your uniqure requirement, but I think he sets up a reader for understanding and evaluating other books.

[RichieP]

Originally Posted by Bill Cullen

What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view? Here I'm looking more for originality and uniqueness of the methods than just number crunching. A book where after looking at the spot plays therein you find yourself saying a number of times, "Hey, I never thought of that before."

Thanks,

Bill C

Bill
Calibration Handicapping by Jim Lehane is what you are looking for. Quite possibly the BEST book ever written on how to make money at the track.

The last part about making your own value line instead of relying on ml odds maker is worth 10 times the price of the book and that's just a small piece of it man.

Get it
Richie

[tribecaagent]

Originally Posted by Bill Cullen

What books are the best collections of spot plays from a creative point of view? Here I'm looking more for originality and uniqueness of the methods than just number crunching. A book where after looking at the spot plays therein you find yourself saying a number of times, "Hey, I never thought of that before."

Thanks,

Bill C

Bill,

"Inside the Claiming Game" by Steve Collison is unique and far from a number crunch approach. I really got a handle on which trainers know how to play the game.

[Hank]

The Mark Cramer stuff like hardcore research for X rated horseplayers would fit the bill.

[shoelessjoe]

Second the motion on CH,Jim's red scan technique is very good.

[gl45]

Ray Taulbot "Lessons in Handicapping" and "Lessons on Racing Angles"

[The Judge]

The old Systems and Methods which evaluated systems that where mailed in or otherwise gathered up ala Phillips Newsletter (which may be another source). Check Gamblers Books

[offtrack]

Olmstead's Complete Handicapper- lists "50 systems that work".

[Bill Cullen]

Originally Posted by RaceBookJoe

Jim Adkinsson (sp?) had an interesting one called " The damndest, craziest, longshot getting book" or something like that. It was a nice slant. I used to lean more on spot plays that made sense from a logical point of view, then some of the "bet the grey horse" type things. rbj

Sounds just what I'm looking for!

Thanks,

Bill C

[Bill Cullen]

Originally Posted by ranchwest

If you haven't read Quirin, I'd recommend starting there before moving on to other spot play books. Quirin doesn't match your uniqure requirement, but I think he sets up a reader for understanding and evaluating other books.

Thanks for your response. I've read Quirin and I still have his "Winning
at the Races" book.

Bill C

[Bill Cullen]

Originally Posted by RichieP

Bill
Calibration Handicapping by Jim Lehane is what you are looking for. Quite possibly the BEST book ever written on how to make money at the track.

The last part about making your own value line instead of relying on ml odds maker is worth 10 times the price of the book and that's just a small piece of it man.

Get it
Richie

Thanks, Richie.

I'll try go get it.

Bill C

[Bill Cullen]

Originally Posted by tribecaagent

Bill,

"Inside the Claiming Game" by Steve Collison is unique and far from a number crunch approach. I really got a handle on which trainers know how to play the game.

This sounds like what I need to be reading.

Thanks,

Bill C

[Bill Cullen]

Originally Posted by Hank

The Mark Cramer stuff like hardcore research for X rated horseplayers would fit the bill.

Thanks, Hank.

I've read Cramer before and he's pretty unique.

Bill C