Speed to Spare: Beyer Speed Figures Uncovered (Elements of Handicapping) [Paperback]

Joe Cardello (Author)

Book Description

Series: Elements of Handicapping | Publication Date: April 3, 2003

Since the inclusion of Beyer Speed Figures into the Daily Racing Form in 1992, horseplayers have had a new tool to use in their day-to-day handicapping. Learn what Beyer Speed Figures are, how they consistently point to the fastest horses in each race, and how to apply them correctly to produce winning tickets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Daily Racing Form (April 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970014767
• ISBN-13: 978-0970014764
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #643,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful., November 11, 2004

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This review is from: Speed to Spare: Beyer Speed Figures Uncovered (Elements of Handicapping) (Paperback)

Joe Cardello, Speed to Spare (DRF Press, 200?)

Speed to Spare is not a book you read; it is a book you devour. Horseplayers who use the Beyer Speed Figures published in the Daily Racing Form who do not yet own a copy of this book, pick it up immediately (after all, it costs only eight win bets after tax). Read it. When you're done, read it again. Follow along, both in the book's examples and in random races you pick from your Racing Form. You will learn more about speed figure handicapping in an afternoon than you have learned since DRF started publishing the Beyer Speed Figures. Guaranteed.

This is a must-read for horseplayers, from the professional bettor to the casual fan. **** ½

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strips beyer figures down to the basics, June 4, 2003

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Speed handicapper (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speed to Spare: Beyer Speed Figures Uncovered (Elements of Handicapping) (Paperback)

Written in a easy to understand fashion, the book provides useful examples of how to use beyer figures and when the top fig is vulnerable.

Very good treatment of bounces and form cycles. The statistical studies in the book are worth the price alone.

Anyone who has read Beyer on Speed should also read this!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Greatest thing since Woodward and Bernstein, May 10, 2004

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Jeff Culler (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speed to Spare: Beyer Speed Figures Uncovered (Elements of Handicapping) (Paperback)

Andrew Beyer must be the best thing to come out of the Washington Post since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein....hey, who says politics and horse racing aren't analogous??

Seriously though, Cardello has done a superb job of taking the figs and giving Joe (or Jane) Horseplayer what he desparately needs in 21st Century wagering...a concise guide in how to cull the figures in the PP's, establish a pattern, and, perhaps most importantly, begin with eliminating the losers.

OK, OK, I know, easier said than done. But this book should definitely be on every handicapper's reading list. Well, only those who wish to take more currency from the mutuel windows than they push through them.