Exotic Betting At The Racetrack (World Scientific Series In Finance Book 15)

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Exotic Betting at the Racetrack is unique as it covers the efficient-inefficient strategy to price and find profitable racetrack bets, along with handicapping that provides actual bets made by the author on essentially all of the major wagers offered at US racetracks. The book starts with efficiency, accuracy of the win odds, arbitrage, and optimal betting strategies. Examples and actual bets are shown for various wagers including win, place and show, exacta, quinella, double, trifecta, superfecta, Pick 3, 4 and 6 and rainbow pick 5 and 6. There are discussions of major races including the Breeders' Cup, Pegasus, Dubai World Cup and the US Triple Crown from 2012–2018. Dosage analysis is also described and used. An additional feature concerns great horses such as the great mares Rachel Alexandra, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Treve, Beholder and Song Bird. There is a discussion of horse ownership and a tour through arguably the world's top trainer Frederico Tesio and his stables and horses in Italy.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Accuracy of the Win Odds
Arbitrage
Some Good Bets on Exotics & Place & Show
Money Management: How to Bet Using Dr Z's Track Money Management System
Winning Systems: Combining the Crowd's Handicapping with Money Management
Beating the Place and Show Pools
Dr Z's Place & Show Racetrack Betting System at the First Breeders' Cup
Beating the Exacta
Beating the Quinella
Beating the Double
Betting the Trifecta and Superfecta
The Pick 3 and the Pick 4
The Pick 5
The Pick 6
Primer on Dosage
The 2012 Triple Crown
The 2014 Triple Crown
The 2015 Triple Crown and Other Important Races
The 2016 Triple Crown and Other Important Races
The 2017 Triple Crown and Other Important Races
The 2018 Triple Crown
The Pegasus World Cup I and II
The Dubai World Cup
The Great Mares of 2008–2016
Three Tries in the Horse Ownership Business
A Walk into Greatness: Summer 2017 Visits to Tesio's Horse Stables and the Sassicaia Winery
Bibliography
Index

Readership: Undergraduate and general readers interested in racetrack betting strategies, and racetrack fans and bettors.