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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 winning storm of the PPD Club's ImpactPro ratings continues with yet another big-price winner nabbed - this time NOTHING LIKE LUCA $31.20 at Taree on Monday. Just a week or ago, BOOT...

Gun heavyweight jockey Dale Missen knows better than most the importance of grabbing every opportunity with both hands.A former champion Victorian country apprentice Missen, 31, took north Queensla...

The Darley juggernaut has dominated this season's two-year-old majors and it is also hopeful Peck can storm into Queensland Derby contention in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben.Peck, a ...

Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman has been named in a Rest of the World team to be captained by South African Douglas Whyte for this year's Shergar Cup.Bowman and Whyte will be joined by Japanese superstar...

Though he never quite won the hearts of the racing public like his indomitable father did, the supremely talented racehorse Lonhro has transferred his skills to the breeding barn and will be crowne...

Exclusive Book Extract This is the second part of our exclusive extract from American form analyst and punter Susan Bain’s book Signers, the story of her successful betting exploits with husba...