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There are two groups of punters who invariably go to the races, or their TAB agencies, with the percentages piled high against them. They are the backers of favourites and longshots. No matter wh...
There are many problems associated with beating the trifecta. Punters probably don’t realise the task they are taking on when they tackle this bet. Question 1: Can you predict the 1-2-3 finishin...
Let me ask you a question. If you bet on a horse and you see its price rise or fall dramatically, how do you feel? If you feel sick when the horse's odds spiral upwards and smug when they fall, I'...
Greyhound racing is probably the best system under which a punter in Australia can risk - or rather, invest - his hard earned dough. To my way of thinking there is nothing so good as a standout "...
PPM reader Kerrin Brown has been enjoying success as a “lay” operator on Betfair. In this article he relates his personal story, and how he makes money from his operation. The first time I w...
Fitness plays such an important role in horse racing, and so few punters really know much about how to assess it, that we assigned Statsman to set out in detail his own expert views on this import...
The late Don Scott once wrote that the best form of exotic betting is the trifecta. I think he was right. Don said picking a trifecta winning bet was a test of skill rather than a game of chance. ...
They call it 'deep state' handicapping. It's the method used by shrewd computer geeks to make millions of dollars on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrating analys...
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...
This is Part 1 of a two-part exclusive interview with Australia's greatest professional punter, the late Don Scott, by PPM's Brian Blackwell. Scott discusses his lifestyle, his approach to punting...
Punters who piled into Winning Leader last weekend
A deeply disappointed Zac Purton has bowed to medical advice and abandoned efforts to ride at the first meeting of the new season after a scan of the jockey's damaged right ankle has revealed a sm...
The in-form combination of trainer Caspar Fownes and his former apprentice Vincent Ho Chak-yiu can be counted on to deliver a banker in the last leg of the Triple Trio at Happy Valley with Born T...
From RACING POST HKConsistent David Hall-trained Familists hasn't had that many highlights since coming to Hong Kong, but the juxtaposition of a number of factors including a return to the Sha Tin ...
From RACING POST HKwww.racing.scmp.comElegance Klammer's rich vein of form makes him the one to beat again in the Ho Chung River Handicap (1,650m) at Happy Valley tonight, but the John Moore-traine...
from RACING POST in Hong KongAfter six months of competition, the 1010 Happy Valley Million Challenge will come down to its usual nail-biting finish at the city course tonight, with horses who are ...
Olivier Doleuze will play a crucial role in determining the fortunes of Triple Trio punters at Sha Tin on Sunday and will partner last-start winner Viva Freedom, the lightly raced Super Horse and t...
It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...
From RACING POST HKHorses for courses as trainer John Moore revelled in the grim afternoon weather at Sha Tin yesterday, racking up a first-time double that might have more to give him down the tra...
Promising apprentice Chad Schofield will be out of action until next month, prompting trainer David Payne to utilise fellow youngster Blake Spriggs on two mounts at Rosehill on Saturday.Schofield, ...