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Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...

You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...

Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...

A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...

Ten per cent profit on turnover would make most professional punters in Australian horse racing ecstatic — and most, in fact, profit closer to five. Rick, who fits out hotels and offices for a livi...

Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

In last month's P.P.M., I talked about the potential perils of level stakes betting. I pointed out the inherent dangers in such an approach and that how a great deal depended not only on a horse's...

In last month's P.P.M., I talked about the potential perils of level stakes betting. I pointed out the inherent dangers in such an approach and that how a great deal depended not only on a horse's...

In last month's P.P.M., I talked about the potential perils of level stakes betting. I pointed out the inherent dangers in such an approach and that how a great deal depended not only on a horse's...

Although many punters are reticent to dabble in multiple bets in the one race, there is a case to be made out for such an approach being a winner. Like everything else in racing, it needs to be ...

Although many punters are reticent to dabble in multiple bets in the one race, there is a case to be made out for such an approach being a winner. Like everything else in racing, it needs to be ...

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...