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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 "...
Let me ask you a question. If you bet on a horse and you see its price rise or fall dramatically, how do you feel? If you feel sick when the horse's odds spiral upwards and smug when they fall, I'...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
They call it 'deep state' handicapping. It's the method used by shrewd computer geeks to make millions of dollars on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrating analys...
Star sprinter Hay List continues to make good progress from a leg infection but John McNair says he is not out of the woods yet.Hay List has been domiciled at the Randwick Equine Centre for almost ...
Dubai and Royal Ascot are off the agenda for giant sprinter Hay List, at least for this year.Trainer John McNair said he and the owners believed it was in Hay List's best interests to stay home for...
Trainer John McNair says he never lost confidence in Hay List who delivered one of the great Newmarket Handicap wins of the modern era.McNair resurrected Hay List from a life-threatening leg infect...
Irish training legend Dermot Weld is relaxed and confident about the chances of Galileo's Choice giving him a third Emirates Melbourne Cup victory at Flemington. Weld, who arrived from the Breeders...
Caspar Fownes again leads the Happy Valley trainers' list for the season and he should hold the key to the featured Manawatu Racing Club Challenge Trophy (1,000m) there tonight with Disciples Twel...
Veteran galloper Danzylum has won his second Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington while the partner of one of his owners was trying to save 70 horses in the flooded town of Rochester.Janet Gaist w...
Four-year-old Zupacool has appreciated a firm track and run a track record to win the Bendigo Cup but his return to form has come too late for the headline races this spring.Co-trainers John Symons...
There are, I believe, six 'basics' in horse-racing form assessment. After experimenting with real money for the past three years I have formulated the following list: A fit horse One of the ...
The study of form is the essential ingredient to becoming a successful punter. All professional punters learn to study form because they know that without it, they are like a carpenter without ...