Trainer Angles: Maximizing Profits using Formulator Software and Advanced Trainer Stats - Softcover

Keppler, Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932910913 ISBN 13: 9781932910919

Publisher: Daily Racing Form, 2006

Synopsis

Trainer Angles: Maximizing Profits using Formulator and Advanced Trainer Stats is an indispensable guide to finding profitable trainer maneuvers. The reader learns how to decipher what trainer patterns produce the most profits by analyzing trainer/jockey combinations, success after claiming a horse, distance and surface changes, first time starters, and movements up and down class.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"As one of the minority who believes that trainer stats are the primary factor in handicapping, I hesitated on praising Keppler's fine book on trainer specialty angles, fearing that my odds might be impacted. But with most players deeply conditioned to prioritize speed, pace, form and class, I think the odds for trainer players will remain in the profitable zone even after his book becomes the hit it deserves to be." -Mark Cramer, author of Scared Money, Kinky Handicapping, and editor of the monthly C & X Racing Report. "Daily Racing Form's Dean Keppler details a new age approach with the DRF's Formulator 4. Focusing on betting the trainer's statistical win rates and return on investment (ROI), Keppler demands proof the trainer has a long term win rate and positive ROI move before he bets. His methodical approach allows all players to understand how to acquire the knowledge and skill to learn how to win by requesting information from the Formulator 4.0 database." -Ed Bain, author of the book 4 +30 and editor and publisher of the newsletter Layoffs and Claims. "Beyond raw ability of a horse, no handicapping factor is more important than the ability of a horse's trainer. Longtime horseplayer Dean Keppler offers a fitting means of trainer analysis in his easy, entertaining text Trainer Angles. Citing coast-to-coast examples of trainer statistics in Daily Racing Form past performances while introducing the potential of Formulator software." --Brad Free, handicapper for Daily Racing Form "In a handicapping world that is teeming with sharp players and supposed "wise guys" there are only a few edges left. And Keppler has zoomed in on one of them: TRAINER ANGLES. Whether you are a weekend warrior or daily player, Trainer Angles will provide you with dozens of gold nuggets and get you thinking about the one player who controls the horse: the trainer! This is a must-read book." --Jim Mazur, President of Progressive Handicapping and author of The Gulfstream Handicapper and other meet specific trainer angle books.

"Horseplayers that imagine they know it all when it comes to trainer performance, patterns, and profiles, almost certainly know lots less than they think they know. Anyone who cares to dispute the assertion must read Keppler's amazingly advanced treatment of the nation's trainers and their habits.

Using "filters," the keys to the trainer vaults, from DRF's Formulator 4.1 software, Keppler reveals how trainers known to win with 18 percent of their first starters in maiden races might instead be winning with an exceptional 26 percent of their 3-year-old colts, but with a mere 6 percent of their 2-year-old fillies.

Modern handicappers wanting the postmodern edge on trainers need to possess that kind of well-filtered information. And they will discover hundreds of similar nuggets in this excellent and meticulously-researched book. Not even the most up-to-date local trainer expert can afford to ignore this powerful national resource." -James Quinn, author of 10 books on Thoroughbred handicapping

About the Author:

Dean Keppler is the Director of DRF Press for Daily Racing Form. He has over 25 years experience handicapping both Thoroughbred and harness racing. Keppler was the 2005 winner of the Freehold Raceway Thoroughbred handicapping contest, and was the proud owner of a 2006 Easter Sunday $91,000 Pick Six ticket at Santa Anita Park. He has authored several books and articles on various subjects. He's also contributed to the DRF Learn to Play the Races fan guide, Winning Techniques, and was a part time freelance handicapper for the Saratoga Special this past summer. In the last six years, Keppler's been responsible for organizing and orchestrating the publishing of over 30 DRF Press book titles. He resides in Yonkers, New York, five minutes from the historic Yonkers Raceway now known as the new and improved Empire City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Daily Racing Form
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932910913
• ISBN 13: 9781932910919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176