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In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...
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...
Hartnell has firmed from $6.00 into $4.00 for the Cox Plate after yesterday’s brilliant victory in the Turnbull Stakes, but Winx still remains the one to beat as the $1.80 favourite with TAB. Yes...
Jockey Luke Currie has been stood down from riding after returning a positive swab, leaving connections of Tuscan Fire looking for another rider for the stayer in the Caulfield Cup.
Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie expects a vastly-improved performance from Rothera in the Listed Falvelon Quality at Eagle Farm and is hopeful the gelding can remain on track for a Sydney trip.Rothera...
Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill and his Villiers Stakes contender Hey Elvis have settled into Sydney well this week and are enjoying the hospitality of a person they are both familiar with - horseman...
Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill hopes to be formulating interstate spring plans for Hey Elvis after the Ray White Open Handicap at Doomben.Hill is stepping Hey Elvis up to 2020 metres for the first t...
Victoria Derby betting has opened up with Sacred Elixir ($5.50) the first elect with TAB. Champagne Stakes winner Prized Icon and the Chris Waller trained High Mist are the equal second favorites ...
Following an eye catching run in the Barton Stakes at Caulfield, former Kiwi Humidor has had his price slashed with TAB to win the Australian Cup. “Now with the all-conquering Darren Weir stable,...
TAB has installed Astern and Extreme Choice as $3.50 equal favourites in the prestigious Coolmore Stud Stakes on Saturday . “This could be the most highly anticipated race of the spring, any o...
A decision not to roll the dice during the Brisbane winter carnival could pay off in the spring for connections of Rothera who makes his comeback at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Ben Currie has penci...
Tony McEvoy is expecting significant improvement from Concealer when she lines up in Saturday’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. The daughter of Nicconi is currently r...