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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...

Key issues are surfacing in the long drawn-out Danny Nikolic case...A ruling against the jockey could mean a 'gag' being placed on media interviews by jockeys. It also could mean they would have to...

The key point that emerges from the Danny Nikolic case is this: Stewards should not lay charges on 'suspicion' alone and expect to get a conviction. That's what the Appeal Board says they did when ...

Racing Victoria (RV) General Manager - Integrity, Dayle Brown, has strongly denied allegations made in yesterday's Sunday Herald Sun newspaper regarding widespread Erythropoietin (EPO) use within t...

Talk to any number of racing professionals and ask them to name the key 10 factors in their form analysis and you are likely to receive differing answers! It's the nature of the game. Everyone has...

Cobalt outcome...Champion trainer  Peter Moody  says he feels ‘vindicated that we’ve never cheated’ after the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board cleared him of the most serious cobalt charge in...

Trainer Kylie Gavenlock endured the most anxious 15 minutes of her career at Hawkesbury a year ago waiting for Mary's Grace to be declared the winner of the Darley Crown.The mare returns to defend ...