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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...

Typhoon Tracy may have won at Caulfield on Saturday but the way she did it left question marks. Trainer Peter Moody says: 'She toughed it out...She was there to be beaten but she stood up today so ...

Most professional punters, whether in Australia or overseas, are very likely to emphasise the need to “be different” in your betting approach. “Follow the crowd and you’ll lose just like they do,...

Most professional punters, whether in Australia or overseas, are very likely to emphasise the need to “be different” in your betting approach. “Follow the crowd and you’ll lose just like they do,...

More than six months have passed since PPM printed an interview with the legendary US handicapper Mark Cramer. His earlier books are a little hard to find, but his most recent work, Value Handic...

Answer this question: What's the worst task associated with betting on horseracing (or greyhound racing, or harness racing)? I don't know about you, but personally I feel it's the part that deals...

Answer this question: What's the worst task associated with betting on horseracing (or greyhound racing, or harness racing)? I don't know about you, but personally I feel it's the part that deals...