Andrew Beyer, the longtime racing columnist for The Washington Post, still contributes occasionally to that newspaper and to Daily Racing Form while continuing to play the races from Gulfstream Park, Del Mar, and the den of his Washington, D.C., home. Beyer is perhaps best known as the creator ofthe Beyer Speed Figures and continues to supervise the team that creates those ratings, which debuted in print in The Racing Times in 1991 and have appeared in Daily Racing Form since 1992. His first book, Picking Winners, outlined his development of the speed-figure methodology. He is also the author of My $50,000 Year at the Races, The Winning Horseplayer, and Beyer on Speed.