Horse Racing - Citations

The sport of kings. Often the first sport that attracts people onto betting exchanges, horse racing offers many routes into betting and trading, with pre-race and in-play markets for both fundamental and technical traders.

Academics, in economics and finance, have long been used horse race betting markets as a proxy for financial market research. Therefore, there is a long history of research in efficient market hypothesis, money management and trading/betting strategies with regard to horse racing.

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Benter, William. "Computer-based horse race handicapping and wagering systems: A report." Efficiency of racetrack betting markets (1994): 183-198.

Bolton, Ruth N., and Randall G. Chapman. "Searching for positive returns at the track: A multinomial logit model for handicapping horse races." Management Science 32.8 (1986): 1040-1060.

Edelman, David. "A competitive horse-race handicapping algorithm based on analysis of covariance." The economics of gambling (2003): 106.

Edelman, David. "Adapting support vector machine methods for horserace odds prediction." Annals of Operations Research 151.1 (2007): 325-336.

Hausch, Donald B., William T. Ziemba, and Mark Rubinstein. "Efficiency of the market for racetrack betting." Management science 27.12 (1981): 1435-1452.

Lessmann, Stefan, Ming-Chien Sung, and Johnnie EV Johnson. "Identifying winners of competitive events: A SVM-based classification model for horserace prediction." European Journal of Operational Research 196.2 (2009): 569-577.


Lo, Victor SY, and John Bacon-Shone. "A comparison between two models for predicting ordering probabilities in multiple-entry competitions." The Statistician (1994): 317-327.

Rosenbloom, E. S. "A better probability model for the racetrack using Beyer speed numbers." Omega 31.5 (2003): 339-348.

Rosenqvist, Gunnar. "ARBITRAGE AT THE RACETRACK." Contributions to Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, and Finance: 381.

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