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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...
Is there a purge looming at TVN? Speculation has started in the wake of some forceful but slightly odd comments from Racing Victoria chief executive Rob Hines. Reports today say he has indicated th...
Is there going to be a clash over the immediate future of boom filly Atlantic Jewel? Maybe. How else to explain the reluctance of the Coolmore owners to accept trainer Mark Kavanagh's belief that s...
It's decision time for Lee Freedman...The great trainer - very quiet in recent seasons - will make a decision on the next stage of his career in horse racing early in the new year. He's confirmed h...
Astute young trainer Jason Warren stopped short of saying this debut winner at Geelong on Friday was a 'Derby horse', but you could tell that's what he was thinking, says Tara Madgwick in www.breed...
Is this the one? Four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners may have come up with another star 2YO in Decision Time who whipped rivals in the Panorama Terraces Handicap on Randwick Ken...
MICHELLE Payne yesterday conceded that her riding career may end in the next few seasons, but the state's leading female rider is determined to make the most of her impending comeback from multiple...
A dominant comeback win by Decision Time at Rosehill has earned last year's Golden Slipper runner-up a crack at Black Caviar in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Decision Time was having his fir...
PIERRO is set to open a slight favourite ahead of All Too Hard when the two star colts collide in Saturday's Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill, reports the Melb Herald-Sun.It says: While there ar...