In Global Racing, Shuback sheds light on how to evaluate shippers from abroad by explaining in detail the complete structure and context of foreign racing. This book is the first of its kind to evaluate and dissect racecourses from 15 different countries including racing ovals in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and several others. Handicappers' learn how to interpret Racing Post Ratings, class structure, racecourse configuration, racecourse rating...
From the rigours and risks of high-altitude climbing on Everest to the challenges of scaling El Captain's 3,000 vertical feet, this collection examines the subject of mountaineering through the eyes of gifted writers with great stories to tell. These stories reveal climbing's allure as well as its terrible risks. Legendary Yosemite veteran John Long recalls the joys of climbing the world's hardest rock routes in the company of friends whose boldness scares even him. Scotsmen Hamish MacInnes, Tom...
Budgeting Planner 2020 (2020 Financial Planner and Expense Tracker, #1)
by Lisa Vazquez
This revised edition is even bigger and better than Litfin's original 1995 title. The new handicapping data and features that have emerged in the last decade are all extensively reviewed and outlined in this text. New York's premier handicapper and author arms today's handicapper with all of today's modern betting techniques. New dimensions in computer handicapping, recordkeeping, trainer and jockey stats, and Thoroughbred pattern cycles are just a few of the new and improved hot topics.
Es ist nur ein Pferd Kalender 2020
by Von Reiterinnen Fur Reiterinnen
'No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.' Winston Churchill, My Early Life From childhood ponies to the racehorses who brightened his old age, Winston Churchill loved horses with a passion. He played polo until well into his fifties and rode to hounds in his seventies; he competed in Army point-to-points at Sandhurst; when serving in the cavalry he took part in the charge at Omdurman in 1898; and his enthusiasm for racing and breeding, according to his daughter Mary Soames, 'gave...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. In June 1893, nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair. For two weeks they thundered past angry sheriffs, governors, and Humane Society inspectors intent on halting their race. Waiting for them at the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set...
It was, said The Times, the equivalent of a racing driver winning every Grand Prix, or a golfer scoring straight birdies in the final round of the Open to finish with a hole in one. No-one would have believed it could happen but, on Saturday 28 September 1996, at Ascot racecourse, the impossible did. Frankie Dettori won every single race on the card: a Magnificent Seven. Now, to mark the fifth anniversary of that extraordinary day, Graham Sharpe tells the full story of how history was made. For...
"May be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history."--Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning "Winkfield's story is so incredible you'll find yourself wondering why you've never heard it before."--MSNBC "Winkfield's life (is) an unbelievable ride."--ESPN "For once, a book's breathless subtitle is accurate."--The Washington Post "This is the stuff of great nonfiction."--Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War In 1904, at age twenty-t...
Computer-based forecasting methods are no longer restricted to the traditional statistical methods. Knowledge-based approaches, which utilise the knowledge gained from human experts in their construction, and machine learning methods in which the computer learns from available examples without significant human intervention are now in general use as forecasting tools. This book examines the application of these methods to the domain of horseracing in Great Britain and overseas and provides a det...
When Best Mate raced up the hill at Cheltenham in March 2004 to his third successive Gold Cup victory, he made history and became the most famous racehorse in Britain and Ireland. His trainer, Henrietta Knight, also became a superstar, her gentle yet determined personality endearing her to the sporting public. This is the first paperback edition of Henrietta's already-bestselling book about the horse, his achievements and the personalities involved in them. Three brand new chapters and new photo...
