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March 29, 2024

Bob Selvin




National Turf's co-owner and chief of operations

HANDICAPPING PHILOSOPHY

Bob Selvin doesn't mind being known as a "specialist" as a professional handicapper following the Southern California racing circuit for more than 30 years. "After all," Selvin says, "if you need heart surgery, you go to a heart surgeon. I'm not a jack-of-all trades. I like to think that I'm just a master of one." That's why he just covers Southern California and doesn't spread himself thin by covering other racing venues.

What Selvin does have is an uncanny sense of finding value and hand crafts a fair odds line for his contenders in each race...something the great majority of professional handicappers who offer their selections to the public do NOT do. "There is no way you can be successful and profitable at this game unless you are completely aware of determining a good price or a bad price. You have to KNOW when to dive in, just play or pass a race," claims Selvin. And it's that vital poinmaking his users aware of the odds... that separates his analysis from others.

What tools does Selvin use? Computer programs, replays, workouts (from Selvin's in house private clocker Andy Harrington) and as a strategic partner of Equibase, his Turfday database which houses every single race run in North America since Jan. 1, 1995. This is a HUGE handicapping edge because it provides Selvin with not only a wealth of recent statistics, but long term ones as well. He will often cite key workouts or information he gleaned off watching replays or stats from Turfday within the content of his analysis.

The end result is a no holds barred, call 'em as he seems 'em daily report, knocking horses (calling some "morning line underlays" or pumping their chance but most importantly with an emphasis on price and value.

HANDICAPPER'S REPORT PUBLICATION / TV SHOW - - BACKGROUND

Bob has had a long and interesting career spanning more than 30 years in thoroughbred racing.

He started out as a Daily Racing Form handicapper where he gained much insight working alongside DRF's late renowned "Bloodlines" columnist Leon Rasmussen and the rest of the DRF staff at that time. Thereafter, he was a jockey's agent for a short time.

With an idea in mind, he created and began publishing "Handicapper's Report" and became partners with Jeff Siegel. With their expertise, the Southern California racing publication grew rapidly and was a big success for many years and caught the eye of many owners, trainers and handicappers with trip and trouble notes, horses to watch, ratings and was the first publication to offer private clocker's information to the public. Many trainers came aboard to endorse this (at that time pre-internet) one-of-a-kind publication and the late great Bobby Frankel was one of the first.

Bob and Jeff's success and credibility gained from published HR also turned into a long run of hosting live handicapping seminars at restaurants near Santa Anita, Hollywood Park and Del Mar for many years. The live seminars were fun and often times featured a leading trainer as a guest handicapper as well. The live seminars also gave Bob and Jeff a chance to mix and mingle with many of their longtime subscribers.

In the 1980's, Bob and Jeff began a five-year run as host and co-host of the popular, primetime TV show, "Handicapper's Report," which was seen weekly throughout Southern California at the time. During that time on the air, they also produced and hosted a number of TV specials on the Kentucky Derby and Breeder's Cup.

During that period and as the years progressed, Selvin and Siegel got into owning horses and campaigned many thoroughbreds, including several stakes winners, in various partnerships that included such notables as late actor John Forsythe and the late great Hollywood producer-director Martin Ritt. Among their trainers were Gary Jones and the late Bobby Frankel and Ed Gregson.

NATIONAL TURF PUBLICATION -- BACKGROUND

In 1989, the partners launched National Turf, and it quickly became Southern California's most well known and respected thoroughbred handicapping service. Not only for the great information and other excellent handicappers that worked under National Turf's banner, but also for instituting a highly innovative "FREE REPLAY." After the races were over, callers were able to actually listen to how good...or bad...any of the handicappers did that day. That was unheard of in the selection business. But it silenced the doubters and proved to everyone just how much confidence Selvin and Siegel had in their own handicapping ability.

National Turf's credibility factor went "off the charts" and has remained that way today, primarily due to Bob and Jeff's integrity and reputation, great personal customer service, along with FREE internet access to "How We Did in Recent Past Days" at the nationalturf.com website.

TURFDAY.COM -- BACKGROUND

With the coming of the new millennium, Selvin branched out and was the brainchild behind www.turfday.com, a site devoted to statistics, angles and many other important handicapping factors "made to order" for today's simulcast players. Selvin uses the site daily to help formulate his own selections offered here at nationalturf.com.

Turfday is a strategic partner with Youbet.com and is powered by data provided by another strategic partner, Equibase. The site has been so well received that Andy Beyer, who loves and uses the site, made specific mention of Turfday in his keynote address at DRF's "Horseplayer's Expo" in Las Vegas in Feb., 2004. It was the only product or service that he mentioned in his talk. The site has become a haven for horseplayers all over the United States and even outside the states.

Selvin runs National Turf and Turfday on a daily basis, welcomes all inquiries and answers each personally.


ACCESS

Bob offers his complete, full-card seminar and best plays for Southern California JOINTLY with Jeff Siegel. Callers receive the expertise of BOTH handicappers (two for the price of one).

(800) 326-8477 ($25 or $12.95 on Visa/MasterCard)
Website ($9.95 for Bob's Best Plays; $20 for Bob & Jeff's joint seminar)

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