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Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...

Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...

For a sport with a heritage based on gambling

One of the most discussed aspects of betting in recent years has been the value of making your own betting line. It's something that the writers in PPM have debated many times. US expert Steve Fi...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is one of the last written for PPM by Philip Alexander, who died only recently. He was one of the UK's most noted racing experts. Modern-day jargon insists upon callin...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is one of the last written for PPM by Philip Alexander, who died only recently. He was one of the UK's most noted racing experts. Modern-day jargon insists upon callin...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is one of the last written for PPM by Philip Alexander, who died only recently. He was one of the UK's most noted racing experts. Modern-day jargon insists upon callin...

In 1979, a book by Dr William Quirin changed thoroughbred handicapping forever. The title was Winning At The Races, Computer Discoveries in Thoroughbred Handicapping. In the book, Quirin wrote on...