Comin' Through 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...

MORE BIG TIMES A-COMIN'After the Blue Diamond and the sad demise of Newmarket Day, we'll get the Guineas and the Australian Cup on Saturday then all our attention will switch north.Randwick has som...

Super mare Winx has opened at $1.80 with TAB in the market for Australia’s richest weight for age race, April’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Winx’s nearest rival is Melbourne Cup favourite Hartnell at...

Sydneysiders get their chance to see Winx return to the track  this Saturday  in the Apollo Stakes with TAB installing the champion mare as a dominant $1.20 favourite as she looks to stretch her...

Almandin ($15) is third favourite with TAB to win the Sydney Cup and become just the fifth horse to win the Melbourne and Sydney Cup in the same season. Antonio Guiseppe and Kinema ($11) are on t...

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,...

The thought that nags anyone who writes a weekly racing column, as I do, from time to time, is this: "What should I write about for next week?" It's been pushing its way to the top of my to-do lis...