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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...

Bush trainer Darryl Dodson can't wait for the day when Finiguerra, a dual entry at Moonee Valley, decides he wants to be a genuine racehorse.The lightly-raced five-year-old has been remarkably cons...

Trainer Steve O'Dea hopes stud failure Bianca Jewel can rediscover her early promise when the four-year-old makes her comeback at Eagle Farm.Bianca Jewel, who lines up in Saturday's Lyndhurst Stud ...

THIS IS EVEN HARDER!Winning is hard.Damned hard.But making it more difficult for yourself is very easy.Just bet midweek.That'll do it, I promise.At present I'm looking at Warrnambool's biggest day....

WHILE tomorrow's Blue Diamond Stakes Previews at Caulfield promise to give a valuable insight into the stocks of the top two-year-olds, the Zeditave Stakes for horses a year older appears to hold j...

Mike Moroney is hopeful talented mare Born To Rock can deliver on her winter promise in the Myer Classic at Flemington.A five-time winner in 14 starts, the four-year-old gets her chance to prove he...

The newly formed combination of trainer Gerald Ryan and apprentice Ibrahim Gundogdu is off to a flying start with the promise of more to come.Gundogdu arrived in Sydney last week and struck with a ...