Clear Proof Horse

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...

She feeds him, grooms him, talks to him in two languages and is totally devoted to him.In return, he follows her around like a faithful dog and plays like a big puppy - even though he is a 530kg th...

When it comes to horseracing, most of us have been searching for a Holy Grail of sorts. That special system or approach that will lift us to the level we wish to attain. Some of us have found w...

Why is it that sometimes the name of a horse triggers in us a sudden, almost explosive impulse to back it? Why is it that we sometimes feel that "hunch" that leads us to a knockout winner? These ...

Racing is based on weight. Virtually from the first race ever run - whenever that was - weight would have played a key role. Weight is the great equaliser. It can help horses win by its very ab...

Before we know it the new season has started. That will certainly be the case after you have had a couple more sleeps and, as has become almost traditional, I offer you some words of advice that I...

Before we know it the new season has started. That will certainly be the case after you have had a couple more sleeps and, as has become almost traditional, I offer you some words of advice that I...