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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...

A brilliant first-up win for the season makes  Born In China the horse to beat again rising in grade tonight (Oct 7) in the Ireland Trophy (1,200m) at Happy Valley. The Francis Lui Kin-wai-traine...

Australian and American interests come together in the opening race of Royal Ascot 2013 as Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom bids to claim the Queen Anne Stakes.

There is a new princess of Australian racing with Black Caviar giving birth to a filly in the early hours of Saturday morning. The filly, who was born in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, has a ...

Linda Meech has answered a call from Peter Moody to partner his two Rosehill runners on Saturday including exciting three-year-old Moment Of Change.It will be a rare Sydney visit from the New Zeala...

Another possible Emirates Melbourne Cup contender emerged in France on Sunday as Alain De Royer-Dupre’s Verema followed in the footst...

Luca Cumani’s great Emirates Melbourne Cup hope Mount Athos suffered his third straight defeat as he just failed to catch front-running Harris Tweed in the Listed March Stakes (2800m) at Goodwood...