Experienced 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...

Experienced horseman Danny Williams has taken up a position with Tony McEvoy at Hawkesbury. Williams, who has 34 years experience in the industry as both a jockey and trainer, will run McEvoy's S...

LAST year James McDonald experienced for the first time the adrenalin rush of the Melbourne Cup, ramped up near max with Fiorente running a brave, gallant second.  McDonald hopes that former Iri...

CRACK colt Denman is already being prepared for next month's $1 million Caulfield Guineas, but Paul Snowden, who heads the Melbourne stable of his father Peter Snowden, is confident another star ma...

From NEIL FRANKLYNRANDALL3g : Trainer : Gareth McRae4 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : Good : DeadChestnut son of Howbaddouwantit who's making a name for...

From NEIL FRANKLYNWAI NOT4g : Trainer - Glenn Old4 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1370m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyChestnut gelding who's impressed me during each o...

From NEIL FRANKLYNBALATRO5m : Trainer - Sandie Cookson10 starts : 2 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : HeavyThis mare has experienced four starts this prepar...