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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...
In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...
At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...
In Australian horse racing the four Melbourne racecourses stand out for their complete difference to each other — and the barrier draw is worth something different at every one. Statsman takes thre...
Australian horse racing runs on so many racetracks, all of varying sizes and designs, that the track itself carries a form guide of its own. Statsman spent five years on winning patterns at Randwic...
News from Gerard Daffy at TattsBet:...Assail continues to firm for the $1.64m Magic Millions Classic on the Gold Coast following her effortless win in the Magic Millions race for 2YOs at Wyong. Ini...
Latest betting information on Saturday racing:GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS 2YO: Driefontein has firmed from $3.30 to $2.90 since the barrier draw. There has been particular interest just to run a plac...
Doomben 10,000 winner Sea Siren is now at $5.00 (4/1) to win the Stradbroke despite not being a certain starter for the big Grp 1 race at Eagle Farm on June 9. The exceptional 3YO filly is expecte...
Melbourne filly Ortensia's win in the Glenlogan Park Stud Stakes has propelled her to second favouritism behind Apache Cat for the Doomben 10,000.But while the Tony Noonan-trained three-year-old wa...
Crack colt All Too Hard has cemented favoritism for next week's Australian Guineas following his outstanding win in the Futurity at Caulfield. Heavily supported to win the big feature, All Too Hard...
TAB Sportsbet's Matt Jenkins report that Sea Siren is the main firmer following the barrier draw for Sat's Grp 1 1400m Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm. Sea Siren, winner of the Doomben 10,000 and...
Pierro's shock defeat in the Caulfield Guineas has thrown Cox Plate betting wide open. The TAB's Fixed Odds market had Pierro as a hot $1.20 fav for the Guineas but the superstar worked hard early ...