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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...

Glen Boss moved 10 wins clear of Luke Nolen at the top of the metropolitan jockeys' premiership table after partnering lightly-raced five-year-old British General to victory in today's Dorevitch Pa...

Warwick Farm: Australian Turf Club Saturday 17, December 2011 Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)Rail Position: TrueTrack Condition: Slow 6Race 1 - 1:05PM AUSTRALIAN TURF CLUB HANDICAP (1600 METRES)O...

Twenty-five? Why not fifty?" I asked. "Because it's a good number," came the reply. I would be satisfied with just one good idea on how to improve one's betting this coming year, but the Editor s...

Ben Richards, a marketing executive, has been a studious but amateur punter for some 20 years and is very successful in what he calls his 'own moderate way'. I love to have a bet. A bet on anythi...

This is the third article in a series in which top US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and downside of racing and betting. In last month's article, Joe answered 10 of the questions he pose...

This is the third article in a series in which top US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and dovmside of racing and betting. In last month's article, Joe answered 10 of the questions he pose...