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Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...
The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...
Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...
Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...
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.
Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.
There is no royal road to profits in horse racing — you have to do at least some work. Ratings are that work: measuring what a racehorse can actually do and writing it down as a number you can comp...
Most horses coming back from a spell lose. That is not pessimism, it is an iron-clad fact, and it is why the fresh horse is the hardest puzzle in form study. But roughly one time in ten the answer ...
Two horses won at 12/1 and 50/1 in the same Sydney spring. Neither was a fluke, and neither was a secret. The reasons were sitting in the form guide the whole time, in plain sight, for anyone who s...
When a Practical Punting reader asked which form factors matter most, he listed twelve — and The Optimist turned the answer into a two-part masterclass. In Part 1, Gordon covers the first three: da...
Hi all...please see two great video links on YouTube -- courtesy of the Australian Turf Club -- which were taken from this morning’s official two year old trials at Royal Randwick. Irelan...
Irish jockey Seamie Heffernan has been studying old videos of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in an attempt to plot the best path to success on So You Think at Longchamp on Sunday, reports www.atther...
For as long as Mark Shean can remember, he has been going to the races. His grandfather was the great jockey Fred Shean while Mark's father Jim also rode with success. As an eight-year-old, Mark ...
Melbourne Cup punters started rallying for an Australian victory as the nation's greatest race became a lost cause for jockey Craig Williams.As betting firms around the country reported a surge of ...
Phil Purser edits the Just Racing website ( www.justracing.com.au ) which contains a number of sections on various aspects of racing, including an excellent ratings guide to finding potential wet-...
Jockey of the moment Craig Williams is now off to Perth to ride next weekend and then he wings it to Japan for a 6-weeks stint. He'll be back for the Magic Millions carnival at the Gold Cst in Janu...
Finding winners in any code of racing can be a daunting task. With so much form information available, punters can often become overloaded and not know which way to turn. On-course, or at TAB ag...
Phil Purser edits the popular Just Racing website ( www.justracing.com.au ) which features racing articles and an excellent ratings guide to wet weather sires. Sydney and Melbourne’s sectional ti...
If you want to know how to win at horse racing through steady, sensible form study — not hype, and not luck — this episode shows you how the weights quietly decide who wins, and how to spot the hor...