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Lee Freedman is leaving his options open with promising young stayer Mount Everest.Freedman, who returned from the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sales on Monday, entered Mount Everest for the ...
Jason Coyle is loving life as a Sydney trainer and is hoping Subtle Cove will give Patinack Farm its first stakeswinner out of its Warwick Farm stables.Coyle, 31, relocated from a 20-horse stable a...
Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...
Moments after the Golden Slipper is run each year, a statue of a jockey at the Rosehill winning post is painted in the colours of the victorious owner.John Singleton reckons they can put his blue a...
More Joyous did more than rocket up the Golden Slipper betting charts with a stunning win on debut.The filly confirmed that her trainer Gai Waterhouse might have a modern day freak on her hands.But...
Local trainer John Marzol and Sydney jockey Jeff Penza have enjoyed a stellar day at Moruya, combining for a winning treble including the two feature races.Flying Along ($1.90 fav) scored a compreh...
Mick Price says he is a little bit nervous about Light Fantastic maintaining his unbeaten first-up record after the grey drew barrier one for Friday night's Group Two Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valle...
Two-time Group One winner Theseo will be given his chance to become Tulloch Lodge's latest weight-for-age star.Trainer Gai Waterhouse confirmed an exclusive weight-for-age campaign for Theseo after...
Juvenile Alright Already surprised Gary Portelli with his debut victory but the trainer believes it will be no shock to see the colt defeat the much-hyped Manhattan Rain at Rosehill on Saturday.The...
Trainer Bryan Guy is trying to tread a diplomatic path at home ahead of the clash of stablemates Masai Pride and Pentacity at Doomben.Magic Millions Cup winner Masai Pride is part-owned by Guy's wi...
In the final part of his absorbing series, PPM expert Statsman tells you more about how to be a professional punter, using $5,000 as a bank. I've talked in my two previous articles about staking ...
Alf Sorbillo an American punter who made a fortune betting on the Californian races in the 50s and 60s used to tell anyone who asked for the secret of his success: "I made my own luck." By this, ...
Ask any professional punter if he's a gambler and he'll say NO! Most punters look on themselves as business people. They see their bets as investments. They set long-term goals, and they try to ru...
Last issue, Russell Clarke, one of Britain's most prominent professional punters, revealed aspects of form analysis. Drawing on his research, he concluded that weight does not have the effect univ...
Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...
Professionals brand them the 'stingers'. It's their way of describing the often devastating effect of long losing runs. And, yes, professionals, no matter how good they are, suffer from them more ...
Many years ago, a Chicago professional punter professed to make a good living by following the selections of a tipster in the Daily Racing Form. But he never followed them blindly. This man reali...
The Fair and Value Price Place Betting Chart below has as its basis the theory written about by Roger Dedman in his book Commonsense Punting. Taking Dedman's theory and adjusting it using my own ...
Alf Sorbillo, an American punter who made a fortune betting on the Californian races in the 50s and 60s, used to tell anyone who asked for the secret of his success: "I made my own luck. By this,...