Pick Number One Horse

Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...

You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...

A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...

Ten per cent profit on turnover would make most professional punters in Australian horse racing ecstatic — and most, in fact, profit closer to five. Rick, who fits out hotels and offices for a livi...

Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...

Since P.P.M. began several years ago, we have learned one most important point about the punting habits of our readers and it's that you LOVE backing trifectas. More than half the hundreds of le...

Since P.P.M. began several years ago, we have learned one most important point about the punting habits of our readers and it's that you LOVE backing trifectas. More than half the hundreds of le...

Since P.P.M. began several years ago, we have learned one most important point about the punting habits of our readers and it's that you LOVE backing trifectas. More than half the hundreds of le...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...