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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...

OFFICIALS fear widespread infiltration of Victorian racing by organised crime after revelations that underworld figures own a horse at the centre of a doping scandal and other pacers and thoroughbr...

The five international runners in Tuesday's $5.65 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington came through the race relatively unscathed, with UK stayer Munsef now likely to start in the Group Two Sandown ...

The five international runners in Tuesday's $5.65 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington came through the race relatively unscathed, with UK stayer Munsef now likely to start in the Group Two Sandown ...

The five international runners in Tuesday's $5.65 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington came through the race relatively unscathed, with UK stayer Munsef now likely to start in the Group Two Sandown ...

Just what the game doesn't need...The ABC reports that police are investigating a string of top Australian horse racing figures, including jockey Danny Nikolic, for alleged race fixing, in what is ...

Look out, the French are getting serious again! Racing Victoria reports that improving French stayer Shahwardi will take a path successfully plotted by compatriots Americain and Dunaden when he tak...