Race and Speed Horses Books

The concepts that are talked about in this book, certainly should fall under the heading..."Why didn't I think of that?" There are a few typos, but overall it is extremely easy to understand. And I think it's rather strange that the author mentions nothing about the added bonus; in his description, of the book. "The added bonus" that I'm referring to, is the fact that this is really 2 books in 1. He's added (after a single blank page past the end of this book) his harness book called... "Harness The Winning".

I'm really very impressed at the horsemanship knowledge that is included in this book, also. I GIVE THIS BOOK A RESOUNDING 5stars ALL THE WAY!!!


I'm Out,

J.R.

Some very interesting "outside of the box" angles. Can't wait to see how they work out on the track.

I thought the book overall was pretty good, I did notice some grammar errors and a repeated paragraph on page 44 I think it was, but I suffer from short term memory loss anyway so it helped me :-) j/k The money management system in this book is very appealing to me and I plan to implement it over my next few trips to the track.

I like the fact he takes on the Beyer Speed Figures personally. There's no "absolute wrong" or "absolute right" when it comes to handicapping the horses in my opinion, my knowledge comes from taking in information from all angles, testing it out, and seeing what actually produces results. It's the results you take away from the book, not how its written.

A friend of mine just let me see his copy of this book, and I've just purchased a copy for myself. What a phenomenally intelligent man this Mr. Rates is! I've already purchased most of the books by the Author Joseph J Tuttle, and his books are good, but they're NOTHING AS IN DEPTH AS THIS!!!!!! WHAT AN AMAZING SPEED RATING SYSTEM THIS MAN HAS COME UP WITH! I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo BLOWN AWAY!!!! He also talks about the Beyer Speed Figs being on an average of (AT LEAST) 12% INACCURATE! If you enjoy reading about horse handicapping theory as much as me, then THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU, FOR SURE! A HUGE 5STARS FROM ME ON THIS BOOK. BEST BOOK ON SPEED HANDICAPPING I'VE EVER LAID EYES ON!!!!!


I'm out!

J.R.

I found Mr. Tuttle's book fascinating with a different approach to speed handicapping. It really comes down to being disciplined and also having the ability to realize when your methods may not be working that day and being able to capitalize on what is working. Sometimes you need to shift gears. I think recognizing daily trends is half the battle for long term winning along with using sound principles. What makes this book great is that Mr. Tuttle goes to the extra step of allowing you to contact him via e-mail or in some cases by phone, especially when you have questions or when you want to know more about his methods. Communicating with him made me understand the book so much better and made me realize how much he knows about horse racing. I would recommend this book for the person who finds their systems and odds have been diluted due to the public "catching on". Even Andrew Beyer stated (in the book Longshots 2) the nature of handicapping is changing and will change due to so much data, software, on-line wagering available these days. New methods must be developed out of necessity in order to keep up with the constant bombardment of new angles that constantly changes the landscape of horse handicapping, wagering and odds. This seems like that kind of book in regard to new and fresh methods. I especially especially enjoyed the chapter about "regression" and "progression" theory analysis. Good luck.

One of the main premises of this book is that its speed figures are accurate, and as such, they are the standard by which the Beyer figure's accuracy can be measured. It is expected that, for any particular race, the Beyer figure should be the exact same number as this book's, or it is "flawed."

First of all, under the Beyer method, times are adjusted so times for different lengths, different tracks, and different track conditions can be compared. Beyer only translated the time to a figure to make it easier to compare, and the figure scale was arbitrarily chosen. For example, a time of 1:12 for six furlongs on an average track condition will get a Beyer figure of 94. There is nothing special about the 94. Beyer could just have easily given it a 114 or a 74 and adjusted the rest of the speed rating chart accordingly.

But this book, which derives their speed figure in an entirely separate way, maintains that the Beyer figure for a particular race is inaccurate if it isn't the same as theirs. As if a methodology with an arbitrarily chosen scale should have its figures match up with a seperate methodology. This is illogical and off the wall.

What's worse, is that this book's figures use, and are an offshoot of, the Daily Racing Form's crude speed figure, which makes them not only incompatible for comparison with Beyer's, but it makes them practically useless as well.

A friend of mine just let me see his copy of this book, and I've just purchased a copy for myself. What a phenomenally intelligent man this Mr. Rates is! I've already purchased most of the books by the Author Joseph J Tuttle, and his books are good, but they're NOTHING AS IN DEPTH AS THIS!!!!!! WHAT AN AMAZING SPEED RATING SYSTEM THIS MAN HAS COME UP WITH! I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo BLOWN AWAY!!!! He also talks about the Beyer Speed Figs being on an average of (AT LEAST) 12% INACCURATE! If you enjoy reading about horse handicapping theory as much as me, then THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU, FOR SURE! A HUGE 5STARS FROM ME ON THIS BOOK. BEST BOOK ON SPEED HANDICAPPING I'VE EVER LAID EYES ON!!!!!
This author is really Joseph J. Tuttle, and as per usual (with his standard M/O of only writing around 100+ page booklets) he is leaving me wanting more. His writing style is a bit like a punch in the face! He's simply telling us (his readers) exactly how he sees things. That, I do appreciate. He recently wrote a book called "Eight-N-One: The complete works (pseudonyms included) by Joseph J. Tuttle". I think that book is probably the best value out of all of his books, and not solely based on the price. I've purchased almost all of his booklets and I've had great results. But, I truly believe that if he were to placate his readership, just a tad; he'd sell a lot more of his books. He's is honestly borderline arrogant in his writing mannerisms. In closing out this review, I must say that his accessibility is by far his greatest asset. How many times have you had an I-M conversation with Andrew Beyer, or Dave Litfin? Or better still an actual phone conversation? He's great in that regard. He always puts his email address in his books. And, I think he actually likes people such as myself that constantly bombard him with questions. That's his best trait!!!


p.s. To R. Malloy and Rod Allison,(Men that wrote poor reviews of "Speed, Speed, and Nothing but Speed)


I had a sweet score today (Aug. 30th 2008) on a 5-1 shot in the 1st @ Toga, because of Joseph J. Tuttle's progression/regression system. 200 to win, and a 20 dollar double wheel. Since buying his first book....."The Ultimate Guide to Beating Baseball", I'm up well over 9k in about 4 or 5 months! This has been the best stretch of gambling on horses or games, in my entire young life.


I GO BY RESULTS AND SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU! THE MAN IN A WORD, IS SIMPLY A "WINNER"! Now, so am I.



I'm out!

J.R.

I can only half-finished but will not continue the book. If the people believe or love statistic records, the book is for them. Half of the book is stats records for USA dirt track ( unfortunately I am living in Australia ). I cannot enjoy the book.

Horseplayers have always known that, all things being equal, the horse that takes the early lead has the best chance to win the race. In "The Power of Early Speed," veteran handicapper and columnist Steve Klein shares a formula for identifying horses most likely to take the lead at the first call. Klein also explains how to use the formula to uncover horses who are good bets to win on the front end at long odds, taking into account field size, jockey and trainer tendencies, track biases and other factors. "The Power of Early Speed" is an excellent analysis of the inherent advantage of early speed (calculated by Klein using a massive sample of horses and races) and the best ways to exploit that advantage. [...]

The title says it all in that early speed is the ultimate bias. It's like in the movie Top Gun where Tom Cruise says "I feel the need, the need for speed." The stats of the sucess of early speed don't lie, & this book presents an interesting way of compiling them with an emphasis that includes field size. And a large part of the book presents charts on trainers, jockeys, etc. But concentrating on the 1st call only without the all important 2nd call & no use of fractions means that this work as providing raw numbers is only a starting point for further research. The books of Ainslie, Beyer, Davidowitz & Brohammer should be studied first, as while this effort presents a formula for early speed points, the best system is that one that compiles information & experiances using the most complex computer, the one above the shoulders.

I liked the book mostly for the Klein speed figures, I have applied them with some success. I was disappointed though when I figured out that it was pretty uneccessary to figure them myself, TVG for example has speed figures that almost exactly mirror what I came up with using the formula from the book. But it did give me a new respect for early speed that I will continue to use in my handicapping.

I agree that early speed is important in horse racing and in particular horse racing on dirt. Klein Speed Points and Klein Track Bias Numbers as mentioned in this book give the horse racing fans some kinds of objective measurement and idea on how the speed of a race will look like and the likelihood that a horse will perform better because of the favourable change in the pace of a race as well as track bias. However, the author of this book does not explain how the formulas used to derive Klein Speed Points and Klein Trace Bias Numbers are created.

Once again, I would like to stress that just knowing early speed is not enough. This is only one part of horse racing. Moreover, if everyone focuses on early speed evaluation, the inefficieny in the "horse racing market" will disappear and the profit will also disappear.

This book is OK to read, but as an experienced horse racing fans who have read many books on handicapping I found no surprise in this book.

I loved reading this book. I read it at home, at work, while driving... It is the best history of the origin of the thoroughbred I've read. Everything imaginable is compiled into one book. All racing nuts have heard "The" story of the origin of the thoroughbred: in the 17th and 18th centuries, English nobility imported a handful of Barb, Turk, and Arabian stallions, crossed them on non-descript local mares, and found that because of the enormous "prepotence" of these fabulous foreign studs, the offspring were stamped with their sires great speed and beauty. Mackay-Smith's great contribution is telling the history of these local mares, showing that they were not just empty vessels waiting to be filled, but were powerful sources of speed themselves, having been bred for racing for generations in England and Ireland. Indeed, they may have been faster than the imported stallions, with the Arab/Barb/Turk sires adding conformation and endurance, more than speed itself. The sires are the source of "speed that can carry", not speed per se. Fun book -like a little trip to a museum everytime you flip through it.

I enjoyed reading this book. It is full of interesting information. Most books about the history of thoroughbred breeding tell all about those magical three eastern stallions. But this one tells the whole story. Mackay-Smith has offered proof that the Irish hobby- and English running-horse strains were thriving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that it is the "taproot mares" which offer the thoroughbred its speed. The addition of the blood of the eastern stallions provided middle distance stamina to the breed. He also talks a lot about the various personalities surrounding the early breeding of thoroughbreds. Until I read this book, I wasn't aware of the connection between the English civil war, the Restoration, and the development of the thoroughbred.
BUT.... this book is far from perfect. As an earlier reviewer pointed out, it is very poorly edited. The illustrations are very good, but the style is a bit jarring and disjointed; it does seem like a bunch of author's notes thrown together under sketchy headings, and the same facts are repeated over and over. There are punctuation errors, and at one point the book refers to "Kentucky Derby winner Native Dancer", a grievous mistake that I think highly unlikely to have been the fault of Alexander Mackay-Smith. In my experience of books published by the Derrydale Press, this book is not quite up to their usual high quality of production. However, even with its faults, I thought this was a unique book, and for racing fans it's definitely worth reading.

This book is not a good read but full of interesting bits of information. It is drastically in need of editing. Published posthumously, the format gives the sense that the author's notes were simply printed as they were found with information oddly organized or repeated.

I was dreadfully sad to read a review of this book which thought that it was too difficult and not well edited. I'm only 21 and found this book to be fascinating, with much knowledge and information that captivated my interest. It is a text that has to be thought over and studied, making it much more valuable than simply a child-view of such a distinct history of the Thoroughbred horse. It was well written and planned out. I found this to be a brilliant construct of the details of such a beloved tradition as these creatures.