Trainer Angles: Maximizing Profits using Formulator and Advanced Trainer Stats is an indispensable guide to finding profitable trainer maneuvers. The reader learns how to decipher what trainer patterns produce the most profits by analyzing trainer/jockey combinations, success after claiming a horse, distance and surface changes, first time starters, and movements up and down class.
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"As one of the minority who believes that trainer stats are the primary factor in handicapping, I hesitated on praising Keppler's fine book on trainer specialty angles, fearing that my odds might be impacted. But with most players deeply conditioned to prioritize speed, pace, form and class, I think the odds for trainer players will remain in the profitable zone even after his book becomes the hit it deserves to be." -Mark Cramer, author of Scared Money, Kinky Handicapping, and editor of the monthly C & X Racing Report. "Daily Racing Form's Dean Keppler details a new age approach with the DRF's Formulator 4. Focusing on betting the trainer's statistical win rates and return on investment (ROI), Keppler demands proof the trainer has a long term win rate and positive ROI move before he bets. His methodical approach allows all players to understand how to acquire the knowledge and skill to learn how to win by requesting information from the Formulator 4.0 database." -Ed Bain, author of the book 4 +30 and editor and publisher of the newsletter Layoffs and Claims. "Beyond raw ability of a horse, no handicapping factor is more important than the ability of a horse's trainer. Longtime horseplayer Dean Keppler offers a fitting means of trainer analysis in his easy, entertaining text Trainer Angles. Citing coast-to-coast examples of trainer statistics in Daily Racing Form past performances while introducing the potential of Formulator software." --Brad Free, handicapper for Daily Racing Form "In a handicapping world that is teeming with sharp players and supposed "wise guys" there are only a few edges left. And Keppler has zoomed in on one of them: TRAINER ANGLES. Whether you are a weekend warrior or daily player, Trainer Angles will provide you with dozens of gold nuggets and get you thinking about the one player who controls the horse: the trainer! This is a must-read book." --Jim Mazur, President of Progressive Handicapping and author of The Gulfstream Handicapper and other meet specific trainer angle books.
"Horseplayers that imagine they know it all when it comes to trainer performance, patterns, and profiles, almost certainly know lots less than they think they know. Anyone who cares to dispute the assertion must read Keppler's amazingly advanced treatment of the nation's trainers and their habits.
Using "filters," the keys to the trainer vaults, from DRF's Formulator 4.1 software, Keppler reveals how trainers known to win with 18 percent of their first starters in maiden races might instead be winning with an exceptional 26 percent of their 3-year-old colts, but with a mere 6 percent of their 2-year-old fillies.
Modern handicappers wanting the postmodern edge on trainers need to possess that kind of well-filtered information. And they will discover hundreds of similar nuggets in this excellent and meticulously-researched book. Not even the most up-to-date local trainer expert can afford to ignore this powerful national resource." -James Quinn, author of 10 books on Thoroughbred handicapping
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"As one of the minority who believes that trainer stats are the primary factor in handicapping, I hesitated on praising Keppler's fine book on trainer specialty angles, fearing that my odds might be impacted. But with most players deeply conditioned to prioritize speed, pace, form and class, I think the odds for trainer players will remain in the profitable zone even after his book becomes the hit it deserves to be."
-Mark Cramer, author of Scared Money, Kinky Handicapping, and editor of the monthly C & X Racing Report. "Daily Racing Form's Dean Keppler details a new age approach with the DRF's Formulator 4. Focusing on betting the trainer's statistical win rates and return on investment (ROI), Keppler demands proof the trainer has a long term win rate and positive ROI move before he bets. His methodical approach allows all players to understand how to acquire the knowledge and skill to learn how to win by requesting information from the Formulator 4.0 database."
-Ed Bain, author of the book 4 +30 and editor and publisher of the newsletter Layoffs and Claims. "Beyond raw ability of a horse, no handicapping factor is more important than the ability of a horse's trainer. Longtime horseplayer Dean Keppler offers a fitting means of trainer analysis in his easy, entertaining text Trainer Angles. Citing coast-to-coast examples of trainer statistics in Daily Racing Form past performances while introducing the potential of Formulator software."
--Brad Free, handicapper for Daily Racing Form "In a handicapping world that is teeming with sharp players and supposed "wise guys" there are only a few edges left. And Keppler has zoomed in on one of them: TRAINER ANGLES. Whether you are a weekend warrior or daily player, Trainer Angles will provide you with dozens of gold nuggets and get you thinking about the one player who controls the horse: the trainer! This is a must-read book."
--Jim Mazur, President of Progressive Handicapping and author of The Gulfstream Handicapper and other meet specific trainer angle books.
-Mark Cramer, author of Scared Money, Kinky Handicapping, and editor of the monthly C & X Racing Report. "Daily Racing Form's Dean Keppler details a new age approach with the DRF's Formulator 4. Focusing on betting the trainer's statistical win rates and return on investment (ROI), Keppler demands proof the trainer has a long term win rate and positive ROI move before he bets. His methodical approach allows all players to understand how to acquire the knowledge and skill to learn how to win by requesting information from the Formulator 4.0 database."
-Ed Bain, author of the book 4 +30 and editor and publisher of the newsletter Layoffs and Claims. "Beyond raw ability of a horse, no handicapping factor is more important than the ability of a horse's trainer. Longtime horseplayer Dean Keppler offers a fitting means of trainer analysis in his easy, entertaining text Trainer Angles. Citing coast-to-coast examples of trainer statistics in Daily Racing Form past performances while introducing the potential of Formulator software."
--Brad Free, handicapper for Daily Racing Form "In a handicapping world that is teeming with sharp players and supposed "wise guys" there are only a few edges left. And Keppler has zoomed in on one of them: TRAINER ANGLES. Whether you are a weekend warrior or daily player, Trainer Angles will provide you with dozens of gold nuggets and get you thinking about the one player who controls the horse: the trainer! This is a must-read book."
--Jim Mazur, President of Progressive Handicapping and author of The Gulfstream Handicapper and other meet specific trainer angle books.
"Horseplayers that imagine they know it all when it comes to trainer performance, patterns, and profiles, almost certainly know lots less than they think they know. Anyone who cares to dispute the assertion must read Keppler's amazingly advanced treatment of the nation's trainers and their habits.
Using "filters," the keys to the trainer vaults, from DRF's Formulator 4.1 software, Keppler reveals how trainers known to win with 18 percent of their first starters in maiden races might instead be winning with an exceptional 26 percent of their 3-year-old colts, but with a mere 6 percent of their 2-year-old fillies.
Modern handicappers wanting the postmodern edge on trainers need to possess that kind of well-filtered information. And they will discover hundreds of similar nuggets in this excellent and meticulously-researched book. Not even the most up-to-date local trainer expert can afford to ignore this powerful national resource."
-James Quinn, author of 10 books on Thoroughbred handicapping
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Going Beyond The Basic Facts To Get An Edge,
This review is from: Trainer Angles: Maximizing Profits using Formulator Software and Advanced Trainer Stats (Paperback)
Go to any track and you'll overhear the regulars in the stands discussing the top trainers, typically through a trainer/jockey angle, as certain combinations seem to "always" get a decent percentage of victories.
But from such a raw statistic or simple observation can yield information that may give any handicapper an advantage in making plays to turn a profit at the track. Author Dean Keppler - in a Daily Racing Form publication - shows how to research a variety of trainer angles through the DRF's Formulator software and other available handicapping material. By delving into such angles as runners going from turf-to-dirt, dirt-to-turf, first time on Lasix and layoffs for specific time periods, the handicapper may uncover available, but little known facts, on the strengths or weaknesses of trainers. For those who do not want to invest in the software, there are a variety of lists that may be used and tips on how to go beyond the basic facts in the racing forms at local tracks. Trainer Angles is part of an ongoing series of DRF handicapping books, but this volume may not be for beginners. It is an essential read for those who have an interest in seriously playing the races and want to take the time to do real research in this important - but oftentimes overlooked - area.
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The title is inappropriate. The treatise focuses entirely on the use of DRF's Formulator for analyzing trainer angles. If you do not have or do not desire to use Formulator, the material is useless.
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This book is mainly something to use with Formulator software, to give you some tips on what to look for. However, you don't really need the book to use the software. In fact, in all of the lists in the book of the top trainers, if you look for updated information you'll find that their hot streaks in those categories haven't continued. So, the book won't do you much good unless you have no creativity to figure out how to use Formulator. However, Formulator itself can still work for you, since you can find out what trainers are doing RIGHT NOW and what is working. So, I'd take a pass on the book but check out the software (or similar software from other companies).
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