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Trainer Peter Snowden is confident Imvula will handle the step up to 2400 metres for the first time in Wednesday's Bendigo Cup.Snowden was quite satisfied with the Rock Of Gibraltar four-year-old's...
Greg Eurell has left the door ajar for Apache Cat to contest next month's Hong Kong Sprint should he rebound from a shock defeat and regain winning form in the Winterbottom Stakes in Perth.Eurell w...
Trainer Tony Vasil will decide after trackwork on Thursday morning whether to back up in-form mare Bird Of Fire in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Classic.The four-year-old daughter of Stravinsky woul...
Promising three-year-old Arjuna will go into his spring grand final a fresh horse in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas.Trainer John Collins said he was always going to give the Giant's Causeway ...
Trainer Shaun Dwyer is confident his stable's fortunes are on the rise following a recent form slump and is confident of landing a treble at Doomben on Wednesday."Things are starting to pick up and...
It is anniversary day for classy filly Marveen and trainer Robert Smerdon is hoping it will prove to be a winning omen for her in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas.At the same meeting a year ago...
Michael Clout's decision to sell his investment banking business to take up training racehorses full time seemed a risky one a few months ago but he was all smiles after Mondial Dame's upset win at...
Gold Coast trainer Lennie Wheeler is still searching for another Oompala despite savouring a rare city victory with Handon Hero at Doomben.Handon Hero provided Wheeler with only his fourth metropol...
Semi-retired veterinarian Ian Shaw has dabbled in training thoroughbreds for the past 42 years with limited success, but he had his day in the hot Canterbury sun Saturday when winning the New Zeala...
Talented gelding Caymans mended his ways to win today's Group Two Sandown Guineas and give himself a chance at the cream of the three-year-old autumn races in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden listed th...
The crunch time came for our David Hayes betting test in the wake of last year's spring carnival. The stable experienced an extremely poor run and placed the 6-Point Divisor Test under great strai...
The argument over each way betting never goes away, does it? A reader from Perth raised the matter with me in a letter just recently. He said that he'd read in PPM that each way betting was bad b...
For a long time now, I have concerned myself with longterm betting strategies. It's been something of a personal battle for me. Some of you may remember the series I wrote some years ago on 'powe...
Progression betting. Ugh, I can bear some of you say. Please, not progression betting. It doesn't work! And neither does target betting, and so on. To which I reply: Why not? Anyone who has prope...
Clever indeed is the punter who shies away from risk-taking. But, alas, silly indeed are the majority of punters who do take risks, not only in their selection of horses to back, but in the way th...
In the final part of his absorbing series, PPM expert Statsman tells you more about how to be a professional punter, using $5,000 as a bank. I've talked in my two previous articles about staking ...
In the many years I've been associated with PPM, I guess I've received some 200 letters from readers asking me about the benefits, or otherwise, of various forms of staking. It doesn't surprise ...
Let me deal, firstly, with one of the simplest possible examples of using both tipsters and the pre-post betting market. This is a relatively simple technique and it will probably allow you to mov...
Those punters who believe that level stakes betting is dull, conservative and a copout are probably interested in any other form of staking. Anything which can bring with it a touch of excitement,...
Many P.P.M. readers who take the time to write to me express great interest in all the various forms of staking. The majority seem to favour progression betting. I suppose this is because it offe...