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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...

100 Great Betting Ideas In this series so far, we have looked at 52 of our Great Betting Ideas. Now we go from number 53 and this is to do with horses resuming from a spell, one of the most tri...

In my previous couple of columns I've begun to explain the quick, timesaving method I use to simplify doing the form for a meeting. First of all I look for losers.

Like me, I suppose most of you at some stage have declared that a jockey has hooked up your horse - the one you bet on, that is. Whether he did or not is rarely known, except by the jockey. In t...

Mark Cramer is one of America's most respected writers on horse-racing handicapping. He's a rebel when it comes to handicapping, and likes to fly in the face of accepted theories. His books Kinky ...

Queensland-based George Tafe is one of Australia's top ratings men. This is the first article in a 2-part series he has prepared for P.P.M. He discusses the various aspects of his approach to rati...