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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...

THREE race series initiatives spread across Queensland will form an important plank in the State Government's plan to rejuvenate country racing, reports Bart Sinclair in the Courier-Mail in Brisban...

Brian Jenkins is planning to move on as soon as possible from Seguro's luckless defeat at Bendigo on Sunday.The Cranbourne trainer has decided on a quick back-up and Seguro will run in Saturday's $...

Darley dabbles...The big and hungry Darley outfit will showcase three of its Blue Diamond hopefuls in two States next Saturday to ramp up the assault on the $1 million race. Montsegur and Kuroshio ...

THE plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

The fate of Sydney's showcase spring carnival meeting on October 1 will be announced on Friday amid concerns over the safety of one of the main grandstands at Randwick.Corrosion in structural steel...

Bendigo has been granted a premier stand alone Saturday meeting for three years with the first to be held in March next year.To be known as the Golden Mile raceday, the meeting will replace the Mel...