Bundy 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...

The washup...Nothing too exciting has emerged from the Shane Dye kerfuffle in Mauritius...He's been suspended for a week and fined 100,000 Mauritian rupees ($3900) over his handling of a horse whic...

He's still number one, in Mauritius anyway...Shane Dye, who could hardly get a decent ride in Sydney after his return from Hong Kong, has emerged as the champion jockey for the 2009 season in Mauri...

Trouble in paradise...Shane Dye is facing an inquiry in Mauritius for his ride in a Cup race last Saturday...The race was won by fellow Australian jockey Dan Nikolic aboard The Cardinal. The probe ...

Shane Dye kicked off his six-month contract in Mauritius with a win in the feature race on the season's opening day - riding three kilos overweight.The excess baggage made little difference to favo...

Billy Idol's back! Controversial Shane Dye has ridden his first winner in his comeback in New Zealand, booting home Goyescas at Pukekura (New Plymouth). It was his first winner in more than two and...

Shane Dye has weighed into the whip rules fiasco with a stinging blast at the people who run racing in Australia. He says: '...the people in charge DO NOT listen to the people in the industry who k...