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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...

Star mare Atlantic Jewel is out of the Cox Plate. She has copped a tendon injury, according to a press release from Racing Victoria.

Champion jockey Damien Oliver will appeal the severity of a one-month suspension after returning a positive urine sample to the prohibited substance ephedrine when tested on Derby Day at Flemington...

James Packer yesterday became the outright owner of Betfair Australasia when he paid $10 million for the remaining 50 per cent, reports Racing Network. Packer was an original 50-percent sharehold...

Saturday metropolitan meetings will change from the start of the new season with an additional race being added to every program. The meetings will increase from eight to nine races and will be r...

He's still number one, in Mauritius anyway...Shane Dye, who could hardly get a decent ride in Sydney after his return from Hong Kong, has emerged as the champion jockey for the 2009 season in Mauri...

DARLEY expects to announce a successor to Peter Snowden “sooner rather later”, says Racing Network. Henry Plumptre, the Australian Managing Director of Darley, said an announcement would not be “...