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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...

Oh, no, not another one of those changing-my-mind Cup stories! Yes, indeed. Now it's David Hayes who is re-thinking his earlier decision to miss this year's Melbourne Cup with his new import Changi...

Melbourne Cup hope Changingoftheguard was a certainty btn in the 2800m Ebor at York UK overnight. Bookmakers Paddy Power halved Changingoftheguard in price to 6/1 from 12/1 for next month's Ladbrok...

Much hyped import Changingoftheguard has died after complications during gelding surgery at Lindsay Park. Australian interests bought the son of Montjeu for a reported $1 million hoping to win last...

David Hayes has been forced to put the Melbourne Cup preparation of Changingoftheguard on hold after the English import developed an abscess in his near-hind hoof.Changingoftheguard was noticeably ...

David Hayes has bought the UK stayer Changingoftheguard. If he passes a vet test, Changingoftheguard, who has been trained by Aidan O'Brien in Ireland, will arrive in Melbourne on Oct 10 and enter ...

Trainer David Hayes says Changingoftheguard has him guessing heading into the autumn but was thrilled with how he competed against another English stayer, Our Aqaleem, in an exhibition gallop at Sa...