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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...

Gai Waterhouse has entered 15 horses in her quest to win a fifth Epsom Handicap but 2008 winner Theseo is not among them.First nominations for the major spring races at Randwick on October 3 were r...

There will be a scent of spring in the air in Sydney this week when a host of racing's brightest stars step up their preparations on the trial track.Four Group One winners headed by Randwick and Ro...

There will be a scent of spring in the air in Sydney this week when a host of racing's brightest stars step up their preparations on the trial track.Four Group One winners headed by Randwick and Ro...

From NZ Thoroughbred NewsThe dominant presence of the NZ stayer in the time honoured Gr.1 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) is there for all to see this Saturday. Successfully pre-empted by 26 of the Caulf...

Reigning Cox Plate hero Maldivian and 2007 Melbourne Cup victor Efficient share the honour of being equal topweights for this year's Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.Racing Victoria's chief handicapper...

A key gear change and Joao Moreira back aboard can extract an extra length of effort from Electronic Phoenix and help deliver Triple Trio players a share of a big jackpot at Sha Tin on Saturday,...