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In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

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...

A number of horses who have expressed an appreciation for the spacious Flemington track over the past week are a chance of returning to Australia's most famous racecourse when it hosts its third me...

Star Queensland sprinter Burdekin Blues is set to make his long-awaited comeback from injury when he chases back-to-back wins in next month's Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben.Burdekin Blu...

Expressway Stakes winner Rain Affair is well on the way to fulfilling his destiny as a top line sprinter and trainer Joe Pride is looking to Neeson to do the same.Pride has always had a high opinio...

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Samaready has displaced Raceway as favourite for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper following her brilliant win in Victoria's premier two-year-old race.But Raceway's trainer...

Brilliant colt Denman is on track to make a resounding return in the Zeditave Stakes after trainer Peter Snowden elected not to pit him against unbeaten filly Black Caviar.The Darley trainer did no...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths says a return to stakes racing at Flemington could be the trigger Happy Glen needs to regain winning form.The five-year-old's campaign was derailed three starts ago when he...