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Meet America's betting guru
BEYER ON BETTING
Two of the great names in American and world racing are Barry Meadow and Andy Beyer.
Meadow is regarded as the No. 1 guru of handicappers, and Beyer is the man who developed the successful Beyer Speed Ratings, now used by most US racing fans. This is an edited article on Beyer from Barry's Racing Monthly newsletter.
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Andy Beyer and racing’s winds of change
ADAPT TO THE NEW PATTERNS
In Picking Winners: a Horseplayer’s Guide, Andrew Beyer discusses his meeting with Steve Davidowitz, a young punter, while sitting on a bench near a paddock at Saratoga Racetrack.
After a discussion on the chances of the day Andrew realised Steve “was the most brilliant student of handicapping I had ever met” and he learned Steve’s punting journey, like his own, was also littered with a passion to win consistently at the races.
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How America’s legendary speed guru began it all
ANDY AND THE KILLER PROTEST (Part 2)
In this final article into the early punting career of legendary US punter Andrew Beyer we find him, prior to the 1977 Gulfstream Park season, buried in stacks of old, yellowing copies of the Daily Racing Form preparing for one of the definitive times of his life.Alongside him was The Kid who, just like Andrew, had discovered the intellectual stimulation of handicapping while he was an undergraduate. The Kid was so enamoured by horse racing that at one stage of his life he told his naïve parents each day he was heading to the Library Of Congress when he was actually going to Bowie Racecourse instead!
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Reflections on one of the world’s greatest punters
THE BEYER PRESCRIPTION (Part 1)
Recently I decided to cull the collection of racing books and booklets I have scattered around my home, one of the reasons being that I was beginning to need training for a jumping career to hop over them at times.
In the process I came across two classic books, written by the doyen of American horse racing, Andrew Beyer, titled Picking Winners: A Horseplayer’s Guide. (1975) and My $50,000 Year At The Races (1978), that I hadn’t flicked through for a while.
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Quirky Andy defies the betting conventions
BEYER – THE PRO WITH A WILD TOUCH
America's best-known punter Andy Beyer failed to beat Australian racing, but he remains one of the most influential figures in international racehorse betting. He's the "ideal" success story for anyone who aspires to earn a living on the punt.He lives in a chic Washington DC suburb in a spacious home filled with tasteful furniture and expensive art. His wife is an interior designer.
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