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How to Make the Multihorse, Multirace Bets that Win Racing's Biggest
Payoffs
By Steven Crist
Price: $24.95
Hardcover - Item #B1821 - 208-pages
Publisher: DRF Press
Pub. Date: June 2005
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"This is not a book about how to pick winners at the racetrack," writes
Steven Crist in the opening lines of this unique and long-awaited book
about playing the races.
Exotic Betting instead argues that how to bet is as important as who
you like, especially in the 21st-century world of horse racing, where a new
menu of wagers such as the superfecta and pick four have overtaken the
familiar win, place, and show betting of yesteryear.
Both serious and casual horseplayers will benefit from understanding
the strategy and mechanics of making these complex wagers, a topic
generally ignored in the literature of handicapping but now more important
than ever. Crist explores each of racing's so-called exotic wagers,
including exactas, trifectas, superfectas, doubles, pick threes, pick fours,
and pick sixes. Drawing on his personal experiences as a bettor and as a
racing journalist and executive, Crist outlines both the common mistakes
made by the betting public and some alternative approaches that can lead
to more profitable returns and to greater enjoyment of an endlessly
intricate and fascinating game.
Crist, known as the King of the Pick Six for his exploits in that jackpot
wager, also explores a wide range of practical issues, including the
advantages and pitfalls of betting on the sport's biggest events, such as
the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup, and the unfairly onerous requirements
imposed on exotic bettors by the Internal Revenue Service.
Whether you're a two-dollar bettor considering his first exacta or a
high roller regularly chasing seven-figure jackpots, Exotic Betting will
forever change the way you look at and wager on horse racing.
Steven Crist has been playing the races and writing about them since a
chance trip to Wonderland Greyhound Park in 1976 put a quick end to
studying 18th-century English literature. He was the horse-racing
columnist for The New York Times from 1981 through 1990; founding
editor-in-chief of The Racing Times in 1991-92; a New York racetrack
executive from 1994 to 1997; and in 1998 assembled an investment group
that purchased Daily Racing Form, where he served as the chief executive
until 2002 and remains as the chairman and publisher. Crist is the author
of the books Offtrack, The Horse Traders, and Betting on Myself. |
