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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...

Peter Moody has flagged the possibility of unbeaten three-year-old filly Black Caviar taking on the weight-for-age sprinters in the Manikato Stakes.Moody, who is excited about preparing what he des...

Trainer Kylie Gavenlock endured the most anxious 15 minutes of her career at Hawkesbury a year ago waiting for Mary's Grace to be declared the winner of the Darley Crown.The mare returns to defend ...

Well-bred youngster Smokin' Joey has lit up Caulfield with a sizzling last-to-first performance to win the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes at his race debut.Trainer Lee Freedman was so impressed with S...

Well-bred youngster Smokin' Joey has lit up Caulfield with a sizzling last-to-first performance to win the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes at his race debut.Trainer Lee Freedman was so impressed with S...

Homebody Hurtle Myrtle will be in unfamiliar territory when she chases a second stakes success in Saturday's Group Two Dane Ripper Stakes at Eagle Farm.Her trip to Scone for last month's Dark Jewel...

Expect to see something special on Saturday is the message from trainer Peter Moody who will saddle up unbeaten filly Black Caviar in the Arrow Training Services Plate at Moonee Valley.The daughter...