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In Australian horse racing the four Melbourne racecourses stand out for their complete difference to each other — and the barrier draw is worth something different at every one. Statsman takes thre...
Australian horse racing runs on so many racetracks, all of varying sizes and designs, that the track itself carries a form guide of its own. Statsman spent five years on winning patterns at Randwic...
Professional gamblers call it 'deep state' handicapping: the horse racing method Bill Benter and Alan Woods used to make millions on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrat...
Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...
The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...
Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...
Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...
Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.
Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.
There is no royal road to profits in horse racing — you have to do at least some work. Ratings are that work: measuring what a racehorse can actually do and writing it down as a number you can comp...
Nick Mordin caused something of a publishing sensation back in 1992 with his book Betting For A Living. It became a bestseller and remains much in demand today, years later. Mordin has sinc...
Racing books have been a pretty scarce commodity over recent years, and good racing books have been even scarcer, with some as hard to find as hen's teeth. So, it was with some expectation and...
How fast have you ever gone in a car? Go on, admit it, you haven't always obeyed the speed limit, have you? There was one memorable occasion where you decided to see just what your car could do. I...
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'...
Nick Mordin is an English racing journalist who decided-in the racing year 1991-92 to test out his betting ideas as a professional punter. He ended up proving that it is possible to make a living ...
How would you like to watch the tote all day and bet for a place AND make a small amount of profit? This is the nub of the Dr Z Factor, an approach to betting created by a couple of American profe...
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar wi...
I started off putting this article together as a sort of homage to the British form analyst and author Nick Mordin, but as I progressed through my research I realised that for a broader picture, a...
Perhaps the most dispiriting thing about betting is the inescapable horror of long losing runs. It happens to all who bet. No matter how good you might be at picking winners, the time will arrive ...