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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...

A Lot for a Little?Or a little for a lot... the ordinary punter always has this challenge in front of him/her.Do you bet, say, $100, and hope confidently to make $20 on the day, and over the year a...

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...

Trainer Nikki Burke will by guided by the opinion of top jockey Glen Boss when she makes a decision on starting honest sprinter Not A Copy in the Christmas Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.Burke was...

AN EASY WAY TO LOSELast Saturday evening One Last Dance looked a genuine threat to the favourite for the Blue Diamond.The TABs kept her safe at $7 behind the short Sepoy (far too short for this rac...

Gai Waterhouse has decided against starting Squamosa at Randwick on Sunday and plans to run the colt first-up in the Magic Millions Guineas next month.Squamosa was nominated to make his return in a...