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The Christmas Stakes at Caulfield will be one the last chances for consistent galloper Itsamonty to win a feature race.Trainer Dean Lawson admitted time was running out for the seven-year-old who h...
Craig Williams will be trying to extend his unbeaten record on Amberino in the Listed Lord Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield.Trainer John Moloney said he was pleased to engage Williams for the five-year-...
Maligned galloper Mind Your Head has rewarded the patience of his connections and delivered on a six month plan to give trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The six-ye...
Trainer Liam Birchley is eyeing his first international runner after flashy juvenile Sarge in Charge trounced his rivals at Eagle Farm to earn a trip to New Zealand.Birchley confirmed after Friday'...
A horse who failed as a jumper 10 months ago is set to provide the fairytale story of the Standish Handicap, the feature summer sprint at Flemington.Adelaide trainer Jim Smith has transformed five-...
Jeff Lloyd has officially been cleared to resume riding at Randwick this week.Concussed and hospitalised after a race fall in which Blake Shinn and Peter Robl were also injured, Lloyd said he would...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will stick with Eclipse Stakes winner Eskimo Dan in a bid to win his first Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Oliver had his first ride on Eskimo Dan last start when ...
Terry O'Sullivan says the extra distance of this season's Bagot Handicap, run over 2800 metres for the first time, could be the key for Ladies In Luck posting her first feature race win.Ladies In L...
Larry Cassidy will have one of his last feature rides as a Sydney-based jockey when he partners Sir Sensible in the Listed Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick on New Year's Day.The New Zealand-born Ca...
Seven-year-old Epona Miss may have won only two races but trainer Dean Saxon isn't afraid to let her take on the best summer stayers in the Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Quoted an outsider at $61 in...
In this final section of a review of the unconscious factors that may adversely affect our judgement when gambling, we will look at only one factor - but a very important one. The myth of skill. ...
When you go to gamble you make a decision. There are a number of components - what to be on, how to bet on it (win, each way, doubles, quinellas, etc.) and how much to bet on it. Are you aware o...
Last month, we looked at the psychological pressures of "negative recency" and "utility" and how they affect the average gambler. We tried to highlight how these factors may influence you uncons...
An academic colleague vaguely interested in horse racing (a rare breed!), asked me if I had heard of a book he was reading about horse racing and written by a psychology professor in America. I us...
Russell Clarke is one of Britain's most successful professional punters. He writes for the popular magazine Odds On and runs his own Internet site. In this special article, he gives his views on b...
One of the most vexing problems facing punters is to decide how much betting their pockets can stand. To put it another way: can you afford to bet as much as you are betting? Or, is your betting ...
Tell the truth: Have you stuck to your New Year's resolution to change your silly betting habits? Or have you drifted back into your old destructive patterns of betting? I pose these questions be...
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...
I wonder if we will ever discover what really happened to Don Scott? The great professional punter was found dead in his bed last year amid rumours that he had killed himself with a massive overdo...
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...