I finally succumbed and bought a copy of CX Wong’s book “Precision: Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing” from Amazon.

The book is available both as a paper book or as an eBook for the Kindle. I opted for the Kindle version for two main reasons. The paper book book has an estimated delivery time of 1 – 4 weeks and it is about twice the price of the Kindle version. Of course, if you don’t own a Kindle it is possible to either download a Kindle app for your smartphone, or use Amazon’s browser based eBook reader for free.

I had seen Wong’s book for sale a number of weeks ago, but only decided to buy it after getting a recommendation from an economics professor based in Israel, who had already examined the book.I have only just started reading the book – but one good thing are the freely downloadable Excel spreadsheets that accompany the text. This book was originally written and published in Chinese, and the English translation is a bit quirky in its use of the language. However, I can understand how some of this has come about – and the issue is not greatly distracting. So far I am enjoying the book – and if anyone has any interest in further details about this book, I will post more information when I have finished reading it.