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Beating the races with a computer
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Beating the races with a computer

by Steven L. Brecher

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Accession 9545 ISBN 0960379207 Publisher Software Supply
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What Brecher does here is, to some extent, simply revise and extend with 1980s computer technology the excellent work Quirin did in his Winning at the Races. -- Robert Beveridge, Amazon.com reviewer

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