Like A Tiger Horse

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...

As time marches on, at eve increasing speed, the prospect of more and more computer-generated print publications becomes a looming reality. One Aussie racing publication, Wizard, published from C...

100 Great Betting Ideas In this series so far, we have looked at 52 of our Great Betting Ideas. Now we go from number 53 and this is to do with horses resuming from a spell, one of the most tri...

Enough of my theories about the philosophies of betting for the time being. It's time to get down to the nitty-gritty of what to bet on. I ended last month's instalment with the advice that I be...

If the win of unbeaten three-year-old Desert Wizard at Flemington yesterday is anything to go by

How would you like to settle down on a Friday night, with two form guides in front of you, and work out the form in a sensible fashion? It can be done. Many successful punters do it. Too many pun...

In recent times I have become a fan of a systems approach in order to provide me with a base number of selections per betting day which I then put through my own rigorous form analysis. Over man...