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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...
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 ...
PROFESSIONAL punters across Australia have made it clear over the past 48 hours that Peter Moody will win Saturday's Doomben Cup in Queensland, but it won't be with the mare who this time last year...
Ask any professional punter if he's a gambler and he'll say NO! Most punters look on themselves as business people. They see their bets as investments. They set long-term goals, and they try to ru...
Alf Sorbillo an American punter who made a fortune betting on the Californian races in the 50s and 60s used to tell anyone who asked for the secret of his success: "I made my own luck." By this, ...
Jockey Danny Nikolic fronts Racing Victoria stewards next Thursday to answer a charge of contacting a professional punter during a January race meeting. Stewards quizzed Nikolic on Tuesday after be...
Last issue, Russell Clarke, one of Britain's most prominent professional punters, revealed aspects of form analysis. Drawing on his research, he concluded that weight does not have the effect univ...
Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...
Professionals brand them the 'stingers'. It's their way of describing the often devastating effect of long losing runs. And, yes, professionals, no matter how good they are, suffer from them more ...