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In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...
Ten per cent profit on turnover would make most professional punters in Australian horse racing ecstatic — and most, in fact, profit closer to five. Rick, who fits out hotels and offices for a livi...
Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...
In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...
At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...
PPD Club members were handed a brilliant betting coup on Wednesday thanks to our ace form analys t Brian Blackwell, who tipped DE LITTLE ENGINE 1st $26.90 and ZEDEEL 2nd in race 6 at Sand...
When we talk about the 'exotics' in the world of betting we mean doubles, trebles, quinellas, exactas, First 4s, quadrellas, Superfectas and 6-Picks. In other words, the bets outside the usual win...
Play with the exotics combinations and make money! Sounds like an advertisement from the TAB, right? It could well be. Knowing how the multiple combinations work, and taking advantage of them, is...
In this article, Damien Whitchurch and The Optimist discuss the pros and cons of various exotic bets and state the reasons for their preferences and dislikes. Damien Whitchurch: To start this off...
The other week I ran into a chap I hadn't seen for some 10 years. I knew him as a fearless type of punter given to gambling any winnings on an all up basis. Sometimes he carried off large stashes ...