Relive the year 2017 in Horse Racing in words and photos, with this companion book to The Anatomy of Horse Race Handicapping Or How to Have Fun at the Track. Arrogate's victory in the first ever Pegasus Cup. Always Dreaming's win in the Kentucky Derby. Gun Runner's string of victories culminating with the Breeders' Cup Classic on his way to being Horse of the Year. Fillies like Songbird, Lady Eli, Forever Unbridled, and others are beautifully chronicled and their excited races relived.

Since the book The Anatomy of Horse Race Handicapping Or How to Have Fun at the Track was published, it has more than achieved its purpose by reaching scores of race fans around the world. Hopefully, the entries and photos contained in this book, A Year in the Anatomy of Horse Race Handicapping Volume 6 will provide the reader with a glimpse of how we handicapped the terrific races given to us in 2018. It was a year with a surprise Triple Crown winner in Justify, and other great performances by champions like Gun Runner, Accelerate, Monomoy GIrl, and Euro darling, Enable. All of them and more providing moments that will be forever etched in our horse racing minds and hearts.

A year-in-review for the sport of Horse Racing in 2016 which ties the races run in that year to the book The Anatomy of Horse Race Handicapping Or How to Have Fun at the Track

The sport's most prominent jockeys and trainers tell their stories and share their insights about what's necessary to compete at the highest level.Authored by award-winning turf writers Bob Fortus and Gary West who have covered the sport of horse racing for a combined 70 years.

A classic guide to handicap strategies in the field of thoroughbred racing Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures--and it all started with Andrew Beyer. With a foreword discussing the changes that have swept horse racing since the book's original publication in 1975, Picking Winners is essential reading both for serious horseplayers and curious amateurs.

A Harvard dropout’s memoir of playing the horses—a great read for handicappers or those who enjoyed Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House. In 1977, before he was known as the creator of “The Beyer Speed Figure,” Andrew Beyer set out on a gambling odyssey, determined to prove himself as a horseplayer. He would marshal all his handicapping skills for assaults on four racetracks: Gulfstream Park, Pimlico, Saratoga, and the Barrington Fair. The then thirty-three-year-old Harvard dropout had the credentials for this undertaking: two years earlier, his book Picking Winners had won a claim from bettors and critics alike. But the theory of handicapping and the practice of it are two very different things, and Beyer did all he could to prepare himself for this new challenge. He consulted with other professional horseplayers. He undertook detailed analyses of trainers and their methods. He refined his speed-handicapping techniques. He developed a revolutionary method for evaluating horses shipped from one track to another. He formulated a bold betting strategy. During the year, he experienced the dizzying thrill of winning more than $10,000 in an afternoon, and agonizing frustration that drove him to bash a hole in the wall of the Gulfstream Park press box. When it was over, Beyer had amassed a profit of $50,664. His account of the year offers a rare, unromanticized look at the world of professional gambling. For horseplayers who have dreamed of beating the races, he proves that the dream is, sometimes, attainable. And he explains, in specific detail, how it can be done. There are no gimmicks in My $50,000 Year at the Races. Instead, there is a proven method of beating the races—and Andrew Beyer’s marvelously entertaining story of how he put it in practice.

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.