Beg Me 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...

Jockey Kieren Fallon has courted fresh controversy by saying there is a drugs problem within British horse racing.Fallon added the issue of drug taking among the racing community was especially acu...

Controversial UK jockey Kieren Fallon is heading to Australia to ride in the Melbourne Cup on November 1. He is likely to be aboard one of Luca Cumani's Cup hopes - Bauer, Drunken Sailor or Manigha...

More strife on the UK racing scene...Britain's Sunday Telegraph says: 'The British Horseracing Authority is to investigate allegations that jockeys have pocketed ú5,000 a time from criminal gangs w...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...