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A Racing Ready Reckoner One of the most comprehensive and useful ready reckoners ever published and, with a simple guide to settling bets which explains the short cuts and systems used by the professional bet settler, there is no bet that a Gentleman should not be able to calculate himself. This handy guide covers: � The settlement of all standard bets such as Singles, Doubles, Trebles, Accumulators, forecasts and much more � Details on how to calculate the newer and more esoteric bets � S...

Introduction by Tanya Stevenson of Channel 4's Morning Line Nursery races are handicaps exclusively for two-year-old horses and are run on a daily basis from July to the end of the flat season in November. Some 150 races will be run this year and finding the winner will challenge both bookmaker and punter alike. Nursery Class is the first book to analyse these races in depth and is filled with telling statistics and tables to help you find the winning and placed horses. It covers vital informati...

By the mid-20th century, professional motorsports established itself as one of America's modern pastimes. Auto racing also found its way to fabulous Las Vegas in the 1950's. Motorsports played its first Vegas hand in 1954 at a bankrupt horse track, fully beset by gamblers and racketeers. Moving in 1958 to rustic nearby Henderson, auto racing became enmeshed with gamblers and government, and the apparent hooks of organized crime. In 1965, the racing game moved to Stardust International Raceway. S...