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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...

Premier trainer Chris Waller is on the verge of celebrating another century of Sydney winners in a season following a double at Canterbury on Wednesday.Victories to Writteninthestars and Disciple t...

Four-year-old Spacecraft has been living up to his name with some aerial work in preparation for the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield.Fearing that the entire may have been getting jaded, Price h...

There are certain key factors in horse racing which tend to determine which horses win races. The use of logic will lead you to regard these factors with the greatest of care when you are assess...

Some time ago, I was chatting with a bookmaker and our conversation ranged over various aspects of betting on the three racing codes. Inevitably, I suppose, we got around to punters as individuals...

In this, the first of a three-part series, PPM's computer expert Neale Yardley passes on the results of his  computer research aimed at weeding out the important from the not-so important formgui...

Some time ago a friend confessed to me he’d discovered why he kept on losing every year. “Too many little extra bets…you know, action bets,” he said. “It’s a shock to see how they add up and how ...