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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...

Fox Hunt is set to join stablemate Jukebox Jury on a trip to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup on November 1.Trainer Mark Johnston confirmed "the race that stops a nation" as the target for Ju...

The Sydney assault on next month's Caulfield Guineas is starting to take shape and the Stan Fox Stakes is looming as the race that will decide the fate of several leading contenders.Although it is ...

The Sydney assault on next month's Caulfield Guineas is starting to take shape and the Stan Fox Stakes is looming as the race that will decide the fate of several leading contenders.Although it is ...

Trainer Chris Waller is not bothered if Love And Kisses has to run into Duporth in the Group Two Stan Fox Stakes at Randwick on Saturday because she's already mixed it with the best around.Love And...

Glyn Schofield is disappointed some of the attention has been taken away from Manawanui's winning effort in the $1 million Golden Rose.As Schofield and trainer Ron Leemon celebrated victory in the ...

Is Gai Waterhouse in for a massive winning day at Rosehill on Saturday? Well, the signs are good. Gai-trained gallopers are favorites in three of four major races. The odd one out is the Stan Fox S...