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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...

A high temperature means flying filly Combat Kitty will miss Saturday's Randwick meeting but trainer Matthew Smith is still confident she can bounce back in time to cement a Magic Millions start.An...

Injury troubles continue for veteran sprinter Hay List...

Apprentice Nathan Berry has been taken to hospital for precautionary X-rays after taking a tumble from Light Horseman at Randwick on a day when senior ride Nash Rawiller also found himself in the w...

It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...

There are thousands of punters around Australia who would like to play their own individual systems - but lack the information required to check back on past results to ascertain if what they have...

Knowing when to “draw the line” in the number of combinations is a key factor in successful betting on trifectas. Most punters have only a limited amount of money to spend. In a way, this is a ...