One Golden Day 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...

Golden Rose fever is building...Boom 3YO Aeronautical is going to be a key contender and the latest news is that he's likely to go straight into the Grp 1 GR on Sep 10 without another run. Trainer ...

Golden Slipper day, 2009 will go down into the history books as the day when ALL the favourites were beaten into submission with not one saluting for the day. The defeats of Faulconbridge ($2.30), ...

Golden Slipper day, 2009 will go down into the history books as the day when ALL the favourites were beaten into submission with not one saluting for the day. The defeats of Faulconbridge ($2.30), ...

A horse raced by one of Australia's biggest punters and an unraced Crown Lodge colt have been identified as early Golden Slipper firmers during the first day of pre-post betting on the world's rich...

John O'Shea believes suspicions about the strength of this year's Magic Millions field - and its validity as a form reference - are well founded as he prepares to play his strongest Golden Slipper ...

John O'Shea believes suspicions about the strength of this year's Magic Millions field - and its validity as a form reference - are well founded as he prepares to play his strongest Golden Slipper ...