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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...

Former Sydney sprinter Lucky Leak is proof that time and patience ultimately bring rewards.Toowoomba trainer Patrick Sexton and part-owner Marty McInerney have between them transformed Lucky Leak w...

Sydney cast-off Lucky Leak booked a Listed Weetwood Handicap start at Toowoomba next month following a determined victory at Doomben.Lucky Leak, ridden by Chris Munce, showed a lot of grit after ra...

Trainer Danny O'Brien has queried the spring form of a number of Australian Guineas runners including stable hope Lucky Thunder who faces his biggest test in the Flemington feature.O'Brien said tha...

Trainer Danny O'Brien has queried the spring form of a number of Australian Guineas runners including stable hope Lucky Thunder who faces his biggest test in the Flemington feature.O'Brien said tha...

Lucky Secret may make a cameo appearance in Tasmania in preference to contesting Melbourne's elite sprints at the end of the month.Trainer Tony Vasil said the weight-for-age Listed Premium Stakes (...

It could be a case of third time lucky for Triple Honour in the Chelmsford Stakes with the six-year-old showing all the signs of being in the best form of his career.The 2008 Doncaster winner finis...