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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...
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 ...
Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...
Ever experienced a feeling of complete frustration at the races? That moment when all your bad luck seems to have arrived at the one time to knock you for six in the pocket? That moment when you r...
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...
Are you a sensation-seeker as a bettor? Are you someone who secretly hates himself and uses betting as a form of punishment? Do you bet because there's not much else in life that interests you? I...
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...
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...
Before we place a bet, each one of us goes through a mind game in determining (a) which horse or horses to back and (b) how to back them. It is a mind game of sometimes infuriating complexity, and...
The one thing that becomes the fear and the bugbear of any betting man's life is the losing streak. This is not just my opinion. Ask anyone who has an interest in trying to make a lot of money fro...