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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...

Professionals call it the 'final risk' in betting. It's that thing called the human factor. It can make or break you as a punter. Make no mistake, when it comes to succeeding in the world of bett...

  We have now come to the second-last part of this series of articles and it's time to wrap up everything and decide the final points formula. The series began in the May PPM, and continued th...

Why does everything seem to go wrong when you back a home you think has a race shot to bits? Why do all your well-thought-out plans go bust? In this article, Statsman explains The Chaos Factor. T...

In previous articles in this series, I've looked at how to streamline an approach to form and selection, and last month I provided a Ratings Guide for the various classes of races. We can use t...

How would you like to watch the tote all day and bet for a place AND make a small amount of profit? This is the nub of the Dr Z Factor, an approach to betting created by a couple of American profe...

The handling of your money at the racetrack, or in a TAB agency, is as important as the selections you make. This is the view of most serious punters, particularly professional punters who have to...