Autumn Forever Horse

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...

Chris Waller has slated the Group Two Expressway Stakes as the autumn launching pad for new recruit Shoot Out.The dual Group One winner made his first public appearance since being transferred from...

MICK Kent plans to take Solsay, winner of Friday night's 1Print.com.au Handicap (1200 m) at Moonee Valley, to Tasmania for next month’s Listed Thomas Lyons Stakes in Hobart on February 9.

Peter Snowden is stepping down from his post as the head trainer for Darley Australia and will set up a base in Sydney with his son Paul. Snowden will remain in his current position until the end...

Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes will be a litmus test for the rest of Melito's autumn carnival aspirations.The reigning NSW Champion for her deeds as a sprinter last autumn, Melito's focus this t...

An Australian Guineas campaign is at the forefront of autumn plans for Aeronautical, a lightly-raced three-year-old expected to resume against older sprinters later this week.Aeronautical is slated...

A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. After all, the $27,500-fee C...