Mission Wise Horse

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

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...

Frankel's younger brother Noble Mission did his Classic prospects no harm with a gutsy display to take the Newmarket Stakes.Tom Queally had nowhere to go at one stage on the 7-4 favourite in what d...

The Hobart Cup is the likely mission for Rathsallagh who has returned to form this summer after a long run of outs.She claimed her second consecutive victory this month when she gave her rivals the...

Black Piranha is still three weeks away from his return but trainer Con Karakatsanis believes he is on target for his shot at Stradbroke history.The seven-year-old will try to become the first hors...

In Manhattan Rain and More Joyous, Gai Waterhouse believes she has two of her best ever three-year-olds heading into an autumn carnival.And the premier trainer can't see either horse being beaten w...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...

In the first of a 3-part series, PPM's expert Statsman begins an absorbing probe into how a punter can turn $5,000 into a full-time betting bank and become, in fact, a professional punter. The s...