Darn You 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...

ANSWER: A PINEAPPLE!Johnny Tapp used to say the answer was a pineapple when there really wasn't one, or only one that you accepted because you couldn't find anything better.And when the punter came...

AFTER THE BALLWell we've had it. Been and gone. And nobody could begrudge the winner his prize, could they? Did it the hard way.I thought there could be a happy ending for me at the 250 as my earli...

That Mysterious Thing We Call "The Punter".I never fail to be amazed by punters.The race that I regard as the hardest on the card (any card you like) for the day is being hit hard already, and it's...

The most amazing thing about many systems and staking plans is probably that they are usually so very simple. A plan that rocked the nation nearly two years ago was The Dark Horse, yet its heart...

The most amazing thing about many systems and staking plans is probably that they are usually so very simple. A plan that rocked the nation nearly two years ago was The Dark Horse, yet its heart...

How good is the public in assessing the chances of each horse in a race? Well, as we’ve pointed out before, pretty darn good. James Quinn, the US writer, says the “crowd” will lose generally only...