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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...

Bookmakers offer Punters a huge array of bet types, in differnt betting markets across so the different codes in sports betting and horse racing. Any new punters have the right to be confused. ...

IT TAKES ALL TYPESI met this fellow, Ralph (that's not his real name) on Saturday at Randwick.As is my wont, I was meandering around looking for an angle and for somebody to chat with. I'm given so...

One of the most frustrating bet types is the First Four. Since last Spring I have been zigging and zagging with this bet form and I am still coming to grips with the best way of tackling it. There ...

Star New Zealand three-year-old Jimmy Choux is a rock-solid $2.05 fav to add to his "picket fence" of wins in Sat's Grp 1 AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. Betstar's Alan Eskander says the horse ca...

Of all the forms of exotic betting in Australia, perhaps the one most rapidly gaining enormous popularity is the trifecta. We get letters from people all across the nation asking for ideas on how...

As I write this, so far this calendar year there have been 128 races of the types that I like to recommend and prefer to bet on. I'm talking about the Group races (1, 2 and 3), the Special Conditi...