Listening Is Doing Horse

Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

I knew the lure of Fox Classics would get to me eventually and here I am watching/listening to an episode of "Gunsmoke". Things will only get "worse" because I have only recently started subscribin...

You would like to back a winner every two selections? That’s a 50 per cent win strike. Some dream! But maybe it’s not so crazy. After all, picking two horses a race and making a ‘book’ by savin...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Many years ago, when my great-aunt was in her punting heyday, I would sit with her on a Saturday afternoon, listening to the races. Aunty Laura was never a keen form student. She preferred to foll...

Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams won his third Bendigo Cup when Tanby easily held out his higher-weighted stablemate At First Sight, but it might not be enough to get the Galileo gelding into the Mel...