Pointy End 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.

With the dust barely settled after GREEN MOON's Melbourne Cup victory, Alan Eskander's Betstar has launched its opening markets for next year's spring majors, and it is Cup runner-up FIORENTE who h...

Miracles Of Life and Diamond Glow, two fillies right at the pointy end of the TAB's early Blue Diamond Market, head an impressive list of 12 nominations for the $120,000 Listed Patinack Farm Blue D...

From RACING POST HKPeter Ng Bik-kuen's Super Plus is reaching the end of his tether at the top of Class Three, but has found the right race to make it three straight wins in the grade and can act a...

Neither of Chad Schofield’s Group 1 rides in Brisbane this Saturday are at the pointy end of the market, but that won’t prevent him from heading to Eagle Farm with a pep in his step, reports Raci...