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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...

Britain's racing writers are ripping Luke Nolen to shreds in the wake of his 'blunder from Down Under' on Black Caviar. In the Mail on Sunday, Jonathan Powell thundered: 'Had Nolen's schoolboy howl...

Another spring carnival done and dusted. The Sandown Classic card is the final meeting for the spring session and Zipping made it one to remember, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.H...

I anyone knows about the business of betting, it's PPM's own systems guru Statsman. He's made a lifelong study of all aspects of betting. Some years ago, in September 1989 to be exact, Statsman p...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

Beating the races is entirely a question of HOW and WILL. You need to know how to beat them, and then possess the will to carry through with your resolve. Some punters alas, the majority have not...