Craig's Star 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...

French stayer, French jockey...Well, it worked last year for Americain in the Melbourne Cup and now it might just work again this year as far as Dunaden is concerned. It looks 99% certain now that ...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...

  A rising star, a quality performer, a grand campaigner and a black type winner-turned-jumper could come together once again in one of the most exciting climax races that Victorian jumps racing h...

Craig Williams will return to Australia next week hopeful of putting himself straight into the reckoning for a Magic Millions ride.The Australian jockey, who landed a double in Japan at the weekend...