Product Description

BACK COVER:
SPORTS/PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGY goes on behind the scenes of every race and is a sensible part of the game of every horseplayer. The application of basic human psychology to the activity of thoroughbred handicapping can go a long way to develop expert skill and earn consistent profits at the track. In these pages Prof. Thomas Wilson shares an entirely original perspective on the art of the game that brings to life the past performance data and reveals new dimensions about the "game inside" the mind of the handicapper.

The Psychology of Thoroughbred Handicapping presents fresh insights and habits of thought with entertaining lessons and compiled results from a decade's worth of behavioral data collected at the track, handicapping contest, and betting parlor.

Discover how knowing the thought patterns of your opponent, the betting public, brings more opportunities to cash tickets with value. Let the crowd make the common human mistakes in judgment and the illogical wager while you use the psychology going on in every race to give you the edge you need to take your game to a new level!

THOMAS WILSON teaches research psychology and statistics to college students in Louisville, Kentucky, and is known around the track as the "Professor."

Cover Photograph 2006 copyright William McAdow.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119027 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-13
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 240 pages

Review
I've read numerous books on the fundamentals of handicapping, but this college professor's book contributes something new. Instead of covering trodden ground, this book adds new ideas for helping players in a sophisticated and complex game. . . yet it's not just theory. The suggested strategies are easy to put into practice and provide immediate gains for those who seriously try them. --Brian, San Diego

Professor Wilson, a research psychologist, has written a highly readable primer on the psychology of handicapping in thoroughbred horse racing. His readers should cash more tickets at the betting windows. --Irv Shaw, Co-owner of Cielo Gold, winner of the Indiana Derby

This is the best book I've ever read on handicapping. I couldn't put it down: A+ --eBay Buyer feedback

About the Author
Thomas Wilson is a research psychologist and college professor of cognitive and experimental psychology in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has spent over 20 years publishing research on the natural operation of the normal mind. Known to experts around the track as Professor, the author has performed over a decade's worth of formal studies of the thought patterns of expert and novice horseplayers as well as numerous statistical analyses of performance data and the predictability of basic racing factors.

Dr. Wilson has been a finalist in the Churchill Downs handicapping contest and teaches a leisure course in Basic Handicapping every spring prior to the running of the Kentucky Derby. Recently he was heard on local radio on Kentucky Oaks day as Louisville's "Hometown Handicapper" on 89.3 WFPL's State of Affairs.