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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...

The BIG races have come around again, and thats when Australia's 'top gun' tipster Brian Blackwell gets going! Just as he promised PPD Club members, BB was delivering the big-race winners on ...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

Shocking is favourite to maintain his unbeaten record at Flemington in the Turnbull Stakes but trainer Mark Kavanagh fears the Melbourne Cup winner may be looking for a slightly longer trip than Su...

BART Cummings is rarely one to make comparisons between his champions of the past and his current team, but the master trainer yesterday had no hesitation in comparing his outstanding filly Faint P...

The weather will determine if trainer Tim Martin gets an early shot at Group One glory in Brisbane this winter.The trainer has Queensland carnival aspirations for handy mare Fibrillation, who has r...

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...