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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...

Thirteen proved to be the luckiest of numbers for Zenyatta whose latest victory improved her record to 13-0 and moved her into rare company in horse racing history.The stellar mare's win in the Gro...

Wasted Emotions signed off on his Australian career in style with victory at Randwick ahead of a tilt at New Zealand's rich Group One summer sprints.Trainer Danny Williams will relinquish control o...

Zenyatta cemented her place in racing history with a stirring triumph in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, a victory that left the great mare unbeaten in 14 starts.Her last-to-first triumph un...