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There are exciting times ahead for Kris Lees with outstanding filly Samantha Miss on the threshold of greatness but first the trainer has some unfinished business with stable stalwart County Tyrone...
Mick Price has abandoned Cox Plate plans for Australian Guineas winner Light Fantastic with his spring campaign now resting on the result of tests this week.The grey shocked his supporters when he ...
New Zealand trainer Alexander Fieldes says owner Kevin Myers will probably take the harder option with Capecover by running him in Friday night's JRA Cup at Moonee Valley over Saturday's RM Ansett ...
Lee Freedman is hoping Fly Higher can defy a moderate fillies record and give him his second Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.Only six fillies in the last 50 years, including just...
Bank Robber has been given the green light by stewards to run in the Epsom Handicap following an encouraging barrier trial at Randwick Friday.The former favourite for the Epsom Handicap (1600m) Sat...
New Zealander Capecover could be a surprise starter in next Saturday's Metropolitan Handicap in a bid to cement a Caulfield Cup berth.Capecover as doing his best work late when seventh in the JRA C...
Plans to start the promising Iamzeus in next month's $1 million Caulfield Guineas are in danger after his narrow defeat at Flemington.Trainer Danny O'Brien was counting on the colt winning the Lord...
A 12-month spending spree on yearlings and tried horses is poised to return its first major spring dividend for Nathan Tinkler at Randwick on Saturday.Tinkler, last week named at the top of BRW's Y...
The return of stable star De Lightning Ridge at Canterbury on Wednesday could not have come at a better time for trainer Keith Dryden.The one-time Golden Slipper favourite runs in the Gow Gates Han...
John Singleton got his share of the $19 million Nathan Tinkler spent at the Magic Millions sale this year but was less than impressed when racing's new player sent around a $15,000 purchase to beat...
IN THE wake of the embarrassing on-course fluctuation failure on Saturday, bookmakers have also demanded an explanation from Racing Queensland about the official prices being sent off course, re...
If you know how your odds are related to percentages it is easy to pick out two or more horses and them to make you a profit, no matter which ones win. Professional punters use this approach all t...
Most serious punters who are totally committed to winning have at some stage of their betting lives made a price line where each horse has been allotted a price commensurate to its chance of winni...
Betting is all about percentages. A bookie makes a 'percentage book' and punters try to beat him. The bookie, then, is much like the manager of a supermarket - he puts up prices which he hopes t...
Most of us know--or at least, all P.P.M. readers know!-about bookmakers' percentages. We know that a bookmaker's prices allow him to make a certain percentage profit on a race (not that he always ...
In these crisis-ridden days for bookmakers, and When the tote seems to be inexorably overhauling them (alas!), it's timely, I believe, to have a look at what makes these bagmen tick. What, in fact...
How do bookies survive these days, when the off-course tote offers such fierce competition, and when many punters are clued-up with accurate 'true' markets and are successfully seeking overlay pla...