Jewel In Our Crown Horse

Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

So Anyway sent her residual value soaring and enhanced one of the finest families of the Australian Studbook when she scored a fighting win in the listed Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Scone.Benefit...

Gary Portelli has opted for the Dark Jewel Classic over the Scone Cup as the preferred stakes mission for Rose Of Peace this weekend, believing the mare will be better suited by the pace in Saturda...

Rachel Alexandra lived up to her star billing Saturday, becoming the first filly in 85 years to win the 1 3/16-mile Preakness Stakes. With jockey Calvin Borel in the irons, Rachel Alexandra became ...

More Strawberries rebounded from a puzzling first-up failure to continue trainer Gai Waterhouse's outstanding autumn carnival in Saturday's Listed Darley Crown.More Strawberries' success in the $15...

The early VRC Oaks markets certainly make for interesting reading. Atlantic Jewel could not have been more impressive in her two most recent wins but she has come up $3.60, and certainly doesn't lo...

Peter Snowden has declared Renaissance the best of his three-pronged attack on Friday's Dark Jewel Classic at Scone, where the trainer is out to claim his home town race for the third straight year...