Winning Edge – Your Handpicked Articles

Crushing The Crowd!

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" horses.

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Plan Of The Month

I had something else planned for this month's Plan of the Month, but it will have to wait until next month. That's because I became intrigued by the fascinating article written by P.B. King (pages 4-5 last month). Good old P.B.,…

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Mysteries of the Wheil

The Van der Wheil was the pseudonym adopted by the man who replied to the Sports Forum column in an answer to a fellow correspondent's confusion over a trivial enough racing matter. The newspaper concerned was the UK Sporting Chronicle…

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The 'Key' Factor Boom

Among the many letters I've received from readers over the last 18 years have been several from a dedicated punter named Fred Ingram, who lives in Melbourne.

Fred first got in touch with me back in 1989 after I had…

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Handicap Yourself

Gordon Pine, the noted US handicapper, wrote recently that if, as a punter, you are not "handicapping yourself" then you are actually handicapping yourself!
What he meant, of course, was that if you don't look…

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Hey, this idea might work!

Never stop looking for new ideas! This has always been my credo as far as racing is concerned, and it's something I work at day and night.Many's the evening I settle down with a set of results to comb through them to see…

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Cool Cash

When the editor handed me the assignment to write about 'money management' I pleaded with him for a leave pass! I wondered if there was anything new to say on this subject. But I was being too pessimistic. Of course, there is much…

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She swoops to conquer!

What can one say? More correctly, what more can one say? They came up with every possible superlative after she won the Melbourne Cup for the second time in 2004. Even then she was being compared with the little band of…

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More 'Golden Oldies'

Going back to the 1940s for a system may seem like reaching too far back into the mists of time - but maybe not. Combing through my old - and very old - books the other week I came across a host of system ideas that stand…

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VDW - The Way It Works

PPM has run several articles on the controversial opinions of the late Cher Van Der Wheil (VDW) and in this article UK contributor Russell Hart takes an insightful and critical look at what the VDW claims really mean.…

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