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By Steve Davidowitz
Price: $24.95
Hardcover - Item #B1825 - 336 Pages
Publisher: DRF Press
Pub. Date: December 2006
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Who are the best horses, jockeys, trainers and horseplayers of modern
times? What were the sport's biggest mistakes, most shocking upsets and
most important handicapping contributions? Author Steve Davidowitz, who
has seen and known them all, answers these provocative questions and
hundreds more, but that's just the beginning of the opinions and
observations in The Best and Worst of Thoroughbred Racing.
Davidowitz, a veteran reporter, columnist and handicapper who has
worked and gambled at dozens of American racetracks, is a passionate
lover of the racing game--and an equally passionate critic of its
shortcomings. In addition to starting and settling arguments about the
sport's most talented people and racehorses, Davidowitz takes aim at its
rascals and reprobates and at an industry that too often fails to address
and resolve its issues.
The result is a provocative and pointed collection of top-10 lists and
essays that touch on every aspect of the racing game: horses, jockeys,
trainers, owners, breeders, gamblers, stallions, broodmares, as well as its
best and worst moments and practices.
Whether you are a novice seeking to expand his knowledge of a
complex sport and its history or a railbird with opinions as strong as the
author's, The Best and Worst of Thoroughbred Racing is sure to educate,
entertain and inspire you.
PRAISE FOR THE BEST AND WORST OF THOROUGHBRED
RACING
"Who's the best trainer of modern times? The fastest sprinters? The
best jockey? After four decades as an astute handicapper and journalist,
Steve Davidowitz has an answer to all of these questions--and many more.
The Best and Worst of Thoroughbred Racing is surely to provoke lively
debate among racing fans everywhere."
Andrew Beyer - Washington Post columnist
"I gotta book right here... As if horseplayers didn't have enough to
argue about every day at the track, now comes along Steve Davidowitz with
the champion argument-starter of all time. He gives us a book full of facts
and opinions and full of run."
Frank Deford - Sports Illustrated
Steve Davidowitz has been a professional handicapper, reporter,
editor, consultant, and columnist for more than three decades. He is the
author of the influential and best-selling handicapping book Betting
Thoroughbreds, which he updated a few years ago to cover modern
handicapping situations and a variety of advanced exotic wagering
strategies.
A highly touted baseball star at Rutgers University who lost a potential
pitching career due to a freak boating mishap, Davidowitz has a wide-ranging background that includes solo travel to Cuba as a teenager; scuba
diving in the Caribbean; playing folk guitar in the clubs of New Orleans;
and photographic magazine covers and exhibitions of his work. As a single
parent, Steve also raised his son, Brad, now a corporate program analyst in
Minneapolis, married with two children.
Davidowitz says he "began to major in horse-racing studies at Rutgers University, Garden State Park Division," when a New Brunswick, New Jersey,
bookmaker gave him a copy of the 1959 American Racing Manual. Some
40 years later, Davidowitz would help Daily Racing Form bring the
prestigious annual back to print as the ARM's editor from 2000-2003.
An active horseplayer who manages a pick-six syndicate, Steve has
contributed articles to The New York Times and been a featured columnist
and/or racing editor for Turf and Sport Digest magazine, the Minneapolis
Star Tribune, The Oakland Tribune, The Philadelphia Journal, The Racing
Times, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Houston Post, among other
publications.
Today, Davidowitz writes handicapping columns for DRF Simulcast
Weekly, trackmaster.com, and other outlets on the Internet. In addition to
his horse-race writings and commentaries, Davidowitz is the co-author of
They Can't Hide Us Anymore with singer/songwriter Richie Havens. He now
lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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