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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...

Another dropout...Victoria Derby winner Rebel Raider is iunjured and it looks very much as if he won't make the spring carnival. Trainer Leon MacDonald says the 4YO pulled up sore after a gallop at...

August 22: Pensioner Plan selectionsPLAN ABelmont 2-4-5-4-1-7-8-7Randwick 2-6-3-5-12-10-4-4MValley 2-7-4-4-6-8-2-2Doomben 1-7-5-2-2-2-3-15Morphettville 2-1-9-5-1-1-1-3PLAN CBelmont DEAD Race 4 No 4...

The field is finalised and now the task ahead is to find which horse will win this year's Melbourne Cup.With 24 horses it is easy to get confused but using Cup history can help eliminate the also-r...