Dangerous Breeding 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...

Spring sunshine deserted Sydney for Melbourne Cup day but fortunately umbrellas were not needed as more than 20,000 people ventured to Randwick.Rain had soaked Sydney on Monday night and into Tuesd...

Leading trainer Peter Moody is attacking Saturday's Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington with three runners, with the stable's number one jockey Luke Nolen engaged to ride the very much in-form Th...

Connections of smart galloper Ranger will be hoping he can emulate former West Australian champion Northerly when he has his first Victorian start in Saturday's Carlyon Cup at Caulfield.The Fred Ke...

The Peter Snowden stable believes Saturday is the perfect time for Pied A Terre to take on older horses and tackle a black-type race for the first time in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington....

Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams says Caulfield Cup runner-up Green Moon is capable of an upset when he resumes in the Group Three Carlyon Cup at Caulfield.The five-year-old has been heavily backed w...

Flying filly Solar Charged has regained her place at the top of Golden Slipper markets with a dominant display in the Kindergarten Stakes at Warwick Farm.Sent out the $1.80 favourite, Solar Charged...