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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...

Tony Vasil's smart 4YO Maxisun is fav for the Eye Liner at Ipswich on Saturday...and no wonder after his 2nd to the boom 3YO Ortensia at Eagle Farm on May 30. TAB Sportsbet has Maxisun at $4.20 (13...

Australian Cup day has been a good one for Craig Newitt in recent years and he is hoping it is again at Flemington on Saturday when he rides stablemates Heart Of Dreams in the Cup and Light Fantast...

Australian Cup day has been a good one for Craig Newitt in recent years and he is hoping it is again at Flemington on Saturday when he rides stablemates Heart Of Dreams in the Cup and Light Fantast...

Some years ago, while holidaying for a lengthy period in France, I met a chap who made his money on the Paris races by following a two-horses-in-the-one-race approach. He told me that at Longch...

Some years ago, while holidaying for a lengthy period in France, I met a chap who made his money on the Paris races by following a two-horses-in-the-one-race approach. He told me that at Longcha...

Some years ago, while holidaying for a lengthy period in France, I met a chap who made his money on the Paris races by following a two-horses-in-the-one-race approach. He told me that at Longch...