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Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

Look out for Sandown Guineas winner So Swift in the New Year. He's having a spell right now but trainers Bill and Symon Wilde have earmakred a key target for him in 2012 - the South Australian Derb...

Who’s going to win the next UK and Australian general elections? Who’s going to be the next US president? You probably have an opinion but are you willing to put money on it? Well, around the w...

This should be interesting...The Australian reports that Australia's biggest gambler, a reclusive maths wiz who bets more than $1 billion each year, is being examined by the Australian Taxation Off...

THE father-and-son training partnership of Bill and Symon Wilde won just one race during their home-town carnival but thankfully it was one of the races that mattered as Hissing Sid made it back-to...

This is the first article by our new columnist, Geoffrey Hutson, a Melbourne University research scientist. Geoffrey will discuss many aspects of betting in his monthly column. He is, in his own w...

This is the first article by our new columnist, Geoffrey Hutson, a Melbourne University research scientist. Geoffrey will discuss many aspects of betting in his monthly column. He is, in his own w...