Recomend a book on horse betting for my dad

[Buck 65]

Thank you all for your recs'

[deacsoft]

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most are recomending the same thing sofar ,so I would likely get more of the same general responces there.
Also, BOOKS seemed more appropriate.

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Fair enough. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (it was just a thought)

[Beavis68]

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Horse racing is guess work because you have little to no info even if you watch the races.

There are too many unknown factors and the bookies take too large a cut.

Comparing the random element in cards to horse racing is just crazy.

The amount of money taken from bookies and the money needed to setup gambling agencies and horse tracks is huge compared to poker. I know that in Australia the major betting agency the TAB takes a cut of around 17% per race, the bookies on the tracks take considerably more.

The only long-term winners are the guys who know the trainers and who have good inside information the regular punters dont get. A lot of race fixing also goes on.

Sports betting is much better because the people setting up the events dont need to generate money from gambling. It is also much harder to fix a sporting event and the huge media coverage usually means everyone gets the same information.

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That is not true at all, anyone that studies a track can get to know all they need to know, the forms have great info more than that casual better realized. I made money for three or four years straight betting Longacres in Washington State.

I am no expert on it, but I would say that will the great assortment of races available plus the hedge betting that can be done, a good disciplined gambler could probably make money more steadily in horses than at cards. I would probably only bet 3 races out of a 12 race card.

Now to me, dog racing it guess work.

Horse racing is beatable.