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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...

A Lesson to Learn By.At Doomben on May 16 there are two fillies running in different races.One is in the third race and won her last start. She beat the other filly, which has been targeted at the ...

A winning return by Group One winner Dealer Principal at Randwick has set him up to again reach the highest level.The 2008 Rosehill Guineas winner spent more than a year off the scene recovering fr...

A winning return by Group One winner Dealer Principal at Randwick has set him up to again reach the highest level.The 2008 Rosehill Guineas winner spent more than a year off the scene recovering fr...

His fellow jockeys were left lamenting as champion rider Jim Cassidy handed out a galloping lesson aboard Legsman to win the Winter Cup at Rosehill.Cassidy may not have written the manual on how to...

Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule died last Saturday at his home of 20 years, Ealing Park. Born in the USA in 1986, the magnificent son of legendary US champion Secretariat and our own superstar m...

What Did We Learn?The horse ran with the lesser lights and finished a gallant second after having some difficulty getting clear. The distance may have been just too far with the weight.The BIG less...