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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...

Once every year, around about this time, we take stock and look at where things are going. While it might look a bit funny to call our Plan of the Month “Plan for the Year”, it doesn’t hurt to rem...

Once every year, around about this time, we take stock and look at where things are going. While it might look a bit funny to call our Plan of the Month “Plan for the Year”, it doesn’t hurt to rem...

Deep Pockets Required.They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), Ho...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...

There are, I suggest, three aspects of greyhound racing handicapping. As a crowd, we tend to ignore at least one of the three. I shall list these aspects of greyhound racing in the following mann...

There are, I suggest, three aspects of greyhound racing handicapping. As a crowd, we tend to ignore at least one of the three. I shall list these aspects of greyhound racing in the following mann...