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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 .
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 ...
The autumn campaign of Golden Slipper hopeful Winter King is over, with the colt sent to the paddock with shin-soreness.The promising One Cool Cat youngster, who was at $34 on Betchoice fixed odds ...
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...
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...