Braddock's Complete Guide to Horse Race Selection and Betting

This is the standard work on racing and betting and has been at the side of every serious horse racing punter since the 1980s. Each day thousands of backers bet on horse races - and lose! Most continue to play the horses without even a basic understanding of how to make it pay. Braddock's Complete Guide reveals the information necessary to mount a serious challenge on the bookies. The key elements to a good result are revealed, supported by the latest in computer-aided statistics. The Complete Guide is all you need to learn about how to analyse form, assess a horse's fitness and survey the various conditions that affect the outcome of a race. If betting was once a mystery, at last the secrets of the race course are finally revealed.

Peter Braddock is a racing writer who was himself a former jockey. He has been a successful tipster, as well as being a master of statistics with an unbeatable eye for a winner on the course.