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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...

Like the sweetest of 'Land Ho's!' to a listing over-laden lifeboat, next Saturday's Bletchingly Stakes signifies that first creeping finger of hope amidst the inky winter black; the soothing rays o...

As we enter 1998, it's no longer going to be solely a case of a 'day at the races'. With the advent of metropolitan night racing, under lights, at Moonee Valley, we can now say we are off for a 'n...

As we enter 1998, it's no longer going to be solely a case of a 'day at the races'. With the advent of metropolitan night racing, under lights, at Moonee Valley, we can now say we are off for a 'n...

It was almost a year ago when Melbourne jockey Luke Nolen was unconscious after a serious fall at Doomben and his future was in grave doubt, but that failed to deter the Cox Plate-winning rider who...

The fundamentals of betting to percentages continue to plague many punters, specially newcomers to the betting game. I suppose that an education in betting via the tote machine doesn't do much for...

The fundamentals of betting to percentages continue to plague many punters, specially newcomers to the betting game. I suppose that an education in betting via the tote machine doesn't do much for...