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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...
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 "...
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...
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...
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. ...
The shortest way home is always on or near the inside rail. Well, that's technically true, as we all know, but we also know that many times it doesn't find you the winner of a race. Especially whe...
I’ve spent years trying to beat the TAB and bookies and I’ve lost my bank more times than I can remember. There have been a few big wins; as many as a man with only three fingers could count on ...
It doesn't matter if you are an intellectual or a fifth-form dropout, a form guide can bring you together on equal footing. Because form is the great leveller in racing. Each man can make of it...
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...
VICTORIA'S three biggest provincial cities could all play crucial roles in spring carnivals with the possibility that the Bendigo and Ballarat cups could join the Geelong Cup as feeder races to the...
Ballarat Turf Club is pushing for the Ballarat Cup to be a stand alone Saturday city meeting next year.Ballarat chief executive Shane Brennan said the club committee would meet next Monday to disc...
My Bentley gave high profile owners Simon O'Donnell and Terry Henderson something to smile about after a frustrating spring when he took out Sunday's Ballarat Cup.Former international cricketer O'D...
All that huffing and puffing by sections of 'the media' about corruption in racing doesn't seem to have registered with punters. The Age reports that the Damien Oliver case, and apparently the Dann...
I don't mind progress, it's change I don't like...Racing Victoria has approved the state's first race to be run in the clockwise direction for more than 60 years. It'll be held at Ballarat - on beh...
The Colin Little-trained debut winner Work The Room has much to live up to but is off to a good start as he prepares for a city success at only his second start.The Bel Esprit gelding is a half-bro...
Trainer Mick Kent and jockey Brad Rawiller combined to win their second consecutive Ballarat Cup on Sunday when Domesky overhauled Rothera to take the country Victorian feature.Kent and Rawiller wo...
Adelaide trainer David Balfour says Right Fong can rebound from his Ballarat Cup failure and score an anniversary win at Flemington.Balfour said the seven-year-old was racing as well ever but he wa...