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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...

Echo Gal has emerged as a leading contender for the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast following her impressive debut win at Warwick Farm. The Gai Waterhouse trained filly had be...

DISCUSSION on Saturday’s McLachlan Stakes at Doomben has focused largely on Oakleigh Girl, Echo Gal and Unencumbered, but Robert Heathcote notes his unbeaten youngster Pinch River warrants consid...

The money suggests Canberra trainer Matthew Dale is set to claim his first Group One success with market-topper Fell Swoop in the BTC Cup at Doomben on Saturday.   The gelding heads latest betti...

Speedy juvenile Celestial Dragon has burst into Magic Millions calculations at  TAB.COM.AU  Following his impressive all-the-way victory at Doomben, Celestial Dragon’s price has been slashed to...

Peter Moody has booked Blake Shinn to ride  Better Land  in Saturday’s Golden Rose, but it remains unclear whether the colt will gain a start, reports Racing Network. Better Land  remains o...

It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...