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Summary: trifectas for everyone!
Review: a smartly written and beautifully edited book, mr. trifecta offers invaluable information to those fortunate souls with enough disposable income to wager on the outcomes of horseraces. the author does not claim to win 100% of the time, but his methods work well enough to allow him to pay for his vice, enjoy days at the track, and buy beer for his friends. if you think you are good enough with numbers, why don't you give mr. cromie's system a shot and see if you can't win a few trifectas yourself. okay!
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Summary: I cashed a $663 trifecta the first time I used Mr. Trifecta!
Review: I have nothing but praise for Mr. Trifecta. The first time I used Rich's strategies at my OTB, I hit a $663 trifecta. Rich not only shows you how to "do the numbers" but also shows you how to avoid losses. I followed the strategies to the tee and scored my first time out and you can too. The book is easy to read, easy to understand and gives full explanation of the strategies. Rich not only shows you what he did right, he shows you what he did wrong and how he learned from it which is what any good teacher will do. A must for anyone who is a regular racetrack goer or who just wants a great chance to pick up a few hundred next time they go to the track or OTB.
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Summary: This book changed the way I handicap races.
Review: I now determine, by using Mr. Cromie's methods in his book, the true "live hidden odds" at the racetrack... It does take practice and a certain awareness plus it has saved me money by not having to purchase PPs (past performances). Hey, you still have to be lucky of course, these are animal athletes not machines ya know.
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Summary: Excellent Information
Review: I recommend "Mr. Trifecta" very highly. I have followed the method for some
time now, and I play only Mr. Cromie's "perfect" bets. If a horse looks great
but doesn't fall into the formula, I don't bet the race. This is a consistent
money-maker, if you have the discipline for it.
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Summary: Excellent Information
Review: I recommend "Mr. Trifecta" very highly. I have followed the method for some
time now, and I play only Mr. Cromie's "perfect" bets. If a horse looks great
but doesn't fall into the formula, I don't bet the race. This is a consistent
money-maker, if you have the discipline for it.
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Summary: Different Approach
Review: Most of the books I've read on racing concentrate only on trying to pick the winners. What I've found so helpful about this book is that it gives the reader a triangulation of sorts; pick three payoffs, first tick, and a common sense approach to looking at horses that will find the LONG SHOT CONTENDERS. Do I win every race, of course not, but I'm winning more than I used to and the payoffs are significantly better due to the long shot contenders this book has helped me uncover. I also like the wow factor I get from my friends. They can't believe some of my picks, then their jaws drop when they hit the board. I have to buy the drinks too often though...
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Summary: MY charity fund
Review: Reviewer middletown, de United States either believes he is e e cummings or can't spell. Furthermore, what use is a system that runs through the numbers then says to look at the horses and possibly add the chalk? The use of a realistic system like that is to cash at the window more often. If I could pick winners just by looking at them I wouldn't have bought his book or used his system either, but since I did I've been able to leverage the facts he points out. Not only do I save by not needing the forms and not spending hours studying the sheets, I save by cashing more winners than I ever did before. If you buy this book for the price of a trifecta ticket consider that your first winner of many to come
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Summary: Different Approach
Review: Richard A. Cromie, Mr. Trifecta (ParlorGrand, 2000)
Handicapping books can be divided into two basic types: those that rely on solid information and those that rely on more nebulous information. 99.9% of the latter (I know if I say "all," someone will publish one that actually works) are complete and utter bunk. The majority of the "nebulous information" books rely on one source of information: "smart money."
The concept of "smart money" is that a horse's owner, trainer, and jockey have a better idea than most handicappers about how the horse will run. The obvious logical fallacy should be apparent: the so-called "smart money" may know everything there is to know about their horse in the race, but are likely to know just as much as the next guy about every other horse in the race.
Mr. Trifecta is just this kind of insider-money book, taking an old system (looking for horses who have more money bet on them in the daily double pool than the win pool and assuming that's "smart money") and applying it with a new angle (Cromie uses the pick three pool instead of the daily double pool). But it's nothing we haven't seen before, and while it's not the quickest road to the poorhouse, you're far better off with books from the former camp by authors like Tom Ainslie, Dick Mitchell, Jim Quinn, William Quirin, Mark Cramer, and the like. **, because it's short, to the point, and contains some good tall tales about track life.
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Summary: We've seen it all before.
Review: Richard A. Cromie, Mr. Trifecta (ParlorGrand, 2000)Handicapping books can be divided into two basic types: those that rely on solid information and those that rely on more nebulous information. 99.9% of the latter (I know if I say 'all,' someone will publish one that actually works) are complete and utter bunk. The majority of the 'nebulous information' books rely on one source of information: 'smart money.' The concept of 'smart money' is that a horse's owner, trainer, and jockey have a better idea than most handicappers about how the horse will run. The obvious logical fallacy should be apparent: the so-called 'smart money' may know everything there is to know about their horse in the race, but are likely to know just as much as the next guy about every other horse in the race. Mr. Trifecta is just this kind of insider-money book, taking an old system (looking for horses who have more money bet on them in the daily double pool than the win pool and assuming that's 'smart money') and applying it with a new angle (Cromie uses the pick three pool instead of the daily double pool). But it's nothing we haven't seen before, and while it's not the quickest road to the poorhouse, you're far better off with books from the former camp by authors like Tom Ainslie, Dick Mitchell, Jim Quinn, William Quirin, Mark Cramer, and the like. **, because it's short, to the point, and contains some good tall tales about track life.
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Summary: Not strictly by the numbers
Review: The book promises a strictly numerical approach to exotic selections but more than one winning example was the result of a "by the number" horse that "looked" poorly conditioned being replaced in the exotic bet by a non-numerical selection that "looked" fit and ready.Very difficult for most people to correctly make that assessment at the track and impossible to make it at simulcast. The system may still have some merit but I've not had the chance to test it. However, I've seen a similar approach on another type of exotic bet in a book by Al Ilich "How to Pick Winners". The difference is that Al packs his book with lots more information on other aspects of racing.Sorry but this book's promise is misleading and it's sorely overpriced. Do I feel like I've been taken? You can bet on it!
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