Just Resting 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...

Chad Schofield’s return is not expected until January, but a more accurate timeline will not be known for a week, reports Racing Network. Schofield’s manager Mark Van Triet said a “realistic” tar...

Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy is bringing his Grp 1-winning colt Toorak Toff back to racing on Saturday. He's in the the Red Tempo Handicap at Flemington on his way to next month's $1 million Magic Millio...

Cox Plate here he comes...That's right, the great WFA race could be a target in the spring for Stradbroke conqueror Black Piranha. Trainer Con Karakatsanis intends resting his amazing superstar bef...

Multiple Group One winner Sniper's Bullet has returned to work with another three state campaign planned for the spring and summer.Trainer Tracey Bartley picked Sniper's Bullet up from the spelling...

Multiple Group One winner Sniper's Bullet has returned to work with another three state campaign planned for the spring and summer.Trainer Tracey Bartley picked Sniper's Bullet up from the spelling...

Multiple Group One winner Sniper's Bullet has returned to work with another three state campaign planned for the spring and summer.Trainer Tracey Bartley picked Sniper's Bullet up from the spelling...