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Insights into national thoroughbred racing for Monday 18 November 2024 to Sunday 24 November 2024. * There were 51 race meetings held across Australia last week with 3,422 horses compe...
There were 47 race meetings held across Australia last week with 3,198 horses competing in 340 races for a total prize money purse of $19,011,500 .
There were 71 race meetings held across Australia last week with 4,512 horses competing in 499 races for a total prize money purse of $46,607,500 .
Predictions of a major downturn in yearling sales proved unfounded at the first four sessions of the Magic Millions sale with just a 16 per cent drop on 2008 figures.Aushorse Marketing said the Gol...
Talented Queensland sprinter Swiss Ace could be a surprise Melbourne visitor for the Group One Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Trainer Mick Mair expects to make a decision soo...
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 ...
Talented sprinter Burdekin Blues could have two stablemates as surprise companions on a trip to Melbourne for the Group One Newmarket Handicap at Flemington in March.Trainer Barry Baldwin is consid...
Jeff Lloyd has answered a last-minute call from New Zealand trainer Murray Baker to ride Fully Fledged in the Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham on Saturday.Lloyd and Baker enjoyed success wh...
Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Zizou is on the comeback trail after a stint at stud last spring and is likely to return to racing in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.Gary...
One of the oldest maxims in racing is that you cannot win by betting on every race. For many years, I have added to this my own ruling that you cannot win by betting on every type of race either. ...
Some More Thoughts on SpecialisingPerhaps distance is a major key. Is staying a great spectacle that the average punter cannot afford?If you get serious about restricting the number of races you tr...
Becoming an expert ... how many times have we read about "becoming an expert"? But there are so many areas in which we cannot become experts. We cannot be experts in delicate brain surgery, for ex...
When Brian Blackwell, the editor of PPM, asked me to write a major feature on what I had learnt in over 40 years of punting, I wondered where I would start. Additionally, his brief was tight in ...
Last month I finished the first part of a ‘double header’ by discussing the key areas of fitness and specialisation. I cannot imagine two better areas for the beginning punter to seriously consi...
In this final article into the early punting career of legendary US punter Andrew Beyer we find him, prior to the 1977 Gulfstream Park season, buried in stacks of old, yellowing copies of the Dail...
Many years ago when I started on the punting trail, I listened with amazement to Sydney form expert Clif Cary espouse his weight theories to an eager radio audience. It seemed to me that I just h...
I attended a private form forum the other week. The attendees were all punters who have made a living from the game for some years now. It’s not the first time we have all got together. Such gath...
Last year we ran a popular series of articles, in which leading international professional punters and form analysts gave' their views on racehorse selection and betting. In this new series, we pr...