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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...

Steele Ryan hopes to get a guide as to whether the right decision was made not to quit training six months ago when his first metropolitan starters of the year are unveiled at Eagle Farm on Wednesd...

One hails from a farming family in the Czech Republic, the other is an American with a background in medical research.This unlikely training partnership of Oldrich Jiricka and Lisa Cohen will be ou...

For over a decade, I’ve sold and counselled in the use of record-keeping software for handicappers. Keeping and analysing betting records is both the thing that handicappers least like to do – m...

By ALAN AITKENwww.racing.scmp.comWhile the focus of Monday's inquiry into Darren Beadman's ride on Collection in Sunday's Audemars Piguet QE II Cup was on the jockey's tactics in the race, it did t...

In the July issue of  PPM the previously “mysterious” formula betting was de-mystified quite substantially with a series of examples which I am positive will have helped all readers in their under...

In the July issue of  PPM the previously “mysterious” formula betting was de-mystified quite substantially with a series of examples which I am positive will have helped all readers in their under...