Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.
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If you want to know how to win at horse racing without picking a single extra winner, this episode is about the money you already leave behind — on the tote board, in the ring, and in the fractions nobody asks for.
What you'll learn:
• Why well-favoured horses barely drift on the tote, and when the ring will pay you more for exactly the same horse
• What the indicator board is really telling you when they jump — it is a floor, not a price
• The one kind of runner the tote reliably pays better on, and the each-way trap that comes with it
• Why the first price put up is almost never the best one, and how to read a market that is still settling
• How to tell a bookmaker drawing in his horns from the market genuinely moving
• The standard fractional bet any bookmaker will lay you just for the asking — and the four prices where it is worth the most
• Why ten dollars at 12-1 should win you $124 and not $120, and why that gap matters more than it looks
This episode is built on an article Roger Dedman wrote for Practical Punting in February 1988, adapted from his book Commonsense Punting — the first of two. The boards are digital now; the arithmetic has not moved.
📘 FREE e-book — "Squeeze Those Odds! — Part 1": download it free and keep Roger's full table of standard fractional bets beside you every race day 👉
pp.practicalpunting.com.au/squeeze-those-odds-p1/