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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...

Lightning has already struck twice for Hawthorne over the Happy Valley 1,000m lately and trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai has done his utmost to see if he can make it happen again in the Victoria Racing ...

Brilliant jockey Joao Moreira will have learned some lessons from the Classic Cup last month and that may enable  Able Friend  to turn the tables on his stablemate  Designs On Rome  in the $1...

LEE Freedman's decision two years ago to get some stable clients to buy tried horses in England and aim them at Australia's staying events had some promising results in its first year, but yesterda...

One of the bleakest starts to summer in Sydney in half a century has Melbourne trainer Clinton McDonald serious about a first-up shot in stakes company for superior wet track sprinter Second Effort...

Shane Scriven won't let a broken toe stand in the way of a possible Group One victory aboard Queenslander Burdekin Blues in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Scriven broke the big toe ...

Shane Scriven won't let a broken toe stand in the way of a possible Group One victory aboard Queenslander Burdekin Blues in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.Scriven broke the big toe ...