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Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...
Mr Incredible is likely to be Guy Walter's only runner at Randwick with the trainer juggling the programs of Raheights, Royal Rock and Kylie to avoid wet tracks.Raheights and Royal Rock are almost ...
Group One winner Mission Critical can post a belated victory in Saturday's Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown after missing most of the spring as a result of a stable accident.The Mike Moroney t...
Eight winning tickets including one belonging to a punter who staked just STG2 have won a share of Britain's Scoop6 pool, each taking home STG437,011.39 ($A1.06 million).The win fund reached a mass...
Eskimo Dan may have earned a Perth Cup start after giving trainer Bevan Laming a change of luck by defeating Instructor to win the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.Fellow Mornington trainer Ri...
Former New Zealander Tariki has convinced trainer Robert Bradshaw he is up to a trip to Sydney for the Summer Cup.Tariki proved his last start win at Doomben on November 8 was no fluke with a comma...
Trainer Desleigh Forster will bid for her first two-state double on Wednesday if predicted rain stays away from Eagle Farm.Forster's talented five-year-old How Brave is due to make his comeback in ...
Coniston Bluebird continues to prove a handful on the training track and trainer Bede Murray believes his assignment at Warwick Farm on Wednesday could be his last as a colt.But Murray's plans to r...
Melbourne jockey Ben Melham is considering an appeal to a higher level over a two-month suspension after the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RADB) dismissed his plea over his handling of a h...
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...