Wednesday 20th August 2008

Nursery Class

A study of two-year-old Handicap Races

Malcolm Boyle

Introduction by Tanya Stevenson of Channel 4's Morning Line

Nursery races are handicaps exclusively for two-year-old horses and are run on a daily basis from July to the end of the flat season in November. Some 150 races will be run this year and finding the winner will challenge both bookmaker and punter alike.

Nursery Class is the first book to analyse these races in depth and is filled with telling statistics and tables to help you find the winning and placed horses. It covers vital information on the racecourses, trainers, starting price (including the favourite), jockeys, weight and the draw..

Preferring a visit to the racecourse to revising for exams, Malcolm Boyle has used his forty plus years of racing experience as man and boy to write a daily column for sportinglife.com. Malcolm also writes for the sports magazine Inside Edge, and has been contracted as a statistician for Channel4 Racing. His appearances on At The Races and numerous contributions to BBC radio programmes, highlight Malcolm as one of today's regular racing 'pundits'. His colloquial style of writing is easy to digest, yet informs as much as the reader is willing to read. This is Malcolm's fourth book, and if research and content is to mean anything, this is the most comprehensive of his titles to date.
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