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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 one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

I have seen lots of dashing gamblers in my time. Some have even hit the headlines with their betting coups but if we take the group as a whole, few of them were able to "see out the distance". Th...

I have seen lots of dashing gamblers in my time. Some have even hit the headlines with their betting coups but if we take the group as a whole, few of them were able to "see out the distance". Th...

Most of us will never become professional punters. It may well be our 'dream' existence but the reality is far different. That doesn't mean we can't discipline ourselves to bet in a professional m...