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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...
Winners and losers...Here's a collection of some of the bigger bets that TABSportsbet took on Sat's Rosehill and Moonee Valley cards.Misses $60,000 @ $2.10 on Retrieve (Tulloch Stakes)$20,000 @ $2....
Big hits and misses by punters on Saturday's racing (figs from TAB Sportsbet):RosehillRace 6 - Scarf (winner)Heavily backed with some of the bets taken on the winner being $4,500 @ $3.60, $4,000 @ ...
A friend of mine was ruminating the other week on his fortune - good and bad - with progressive staking. "Sometimes I wonder why I don't reverse the progression and start with a big bet and end up...
The problem, most people say, is that jumps races provide an added 'hurdle' for the punter-your horse may not reach the finish! So true-but how many times does, for example, the favourite fall, lo...
Trainer Danny O'Brien admits wide gates have made it difficult for his two Caulfield Cup runners but he will not be changing their tactics.Makybe Diva Stakes winner Vigor has the outside draw in th...
All the latest TAB price changes and big bets for Doomben on Saturday