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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 "...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Can any Practical Punting Monthly readers remember back to the 'dark' days before 1985, when there wasn't such a magazine as this? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? In those bygone days, punt...
Jon Hudson, a professional punter for many years, and now one of PPM's leading contributors, reveals the secrets of how you CAN make money at punting- if only you take the time. Is it really poss...
Australian jockey Tye Angland gets his best chance yet at a Group One victory after Go Baby Go came out on top in the first contest that matters - the barrier draw for the HK$6 million Kent & Cur...
With three Group Ones already to his name, Lucky Nine is the most highly achieved sprinter currently in action and the Caspar Fownes-trained galloper has finally drawn the outside when it can help ...
from RACING POST HKwww.racing.scmp.comThe spirit was willing, the flesh just strong enough but Sacred Kingdom's seventh Group One win in the Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup yesterday down the st...
Mick Price is likely to go with just the one runner, Dubleanny, in Saturday's AR Creswick Stakes at Flemington with his other acceptor Our Baby Bonus expected to run at Moonee Valley on Monday.The ...
From HK RACING POSTEven though Lucky Nine has thrived since his Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint win last month, trainer Caspar Fownes says he will be vulnerable when he drops back to 1,000 metres f...
Lucky Year should top off a great Happy Valley season for trainer Danny Shum Chap-shing tonight by taking out the Luger Handicap (1,200m), reports the Racing Post HK. Shum has enjoyed a great s...
Douglas Whyte's powers of navigation will be tested, but Go Baby Go still looks the one they have to topple in the Pearce Memorial Challenge Cup (1,000m) at Sha Tin today. The racecourse debut of G...