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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...
Top bookies are impressed by So You Think - so impressed that they are playing very safe with the superstar. Betstar's Alan Eskander says SYT's Yalumba win was just as impactful on Melbourne Cup be...
AUSTRALIA'S glamour galloper So You Think will continue his multimillion-dollar massacre on the nation's biggest bookmakers if he wins today's $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, reports Steve ...
Bookmakers around the country were happy after Descarado's Caulfield Cup victory foiled a massive plunge on Shocking and wrecked costly strings of bets on well-fancied runners Herculian Prince, Fai...
British bookmakers believe it won't be long before Coolmore's star Australian import So You Think meets his northern hemisphere match.In first markets on the Sussex Stakes, a Group One mile race ru...
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...
Is it more profitable to bet with bookies or the TAB? To discuss this important aspect of betting, we got Jon Hudson, Brian Blackwell and Neale Yardley together to thrash out the major points. J....
Australians wagered a record amount on the Melbourne Cup, all thanks to the popularity of the Cups King Bart Cummings and his horse, So You Think. So You Think ran the shortest Melbourne Cup fav...
HAVING worn a deal of pain through So You Think's spring carnival and then Black Caviar's six-start winning streak this autumn, Australian bookmakers are not willing to risk the Australian champion...