Out For Justice 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...

RACING NSW is headed back to court, but another stoush with Tabcorp beckons in the wake of yesterday's Federal Court ruling on the NSW government's race fields legislation, reports Craig Young in t...

Justice and commonsense prevails...Not surprisingly, an appeal hearing has thrown out the one-month suspension given to Kerrin McEvoy for his losing ride on Shakes at Randwick on March 18. Stewards...

Racing authorities will ask the NSW government to change the law after a court ruled that bookmakers Tom and Bill Waterhouse do not have to pay a 1.5 per cent fee on turnover.The Waterhouses succes...

THE jockey room dux answered the call and immediately headed for Hong Kong airport. Racing's first lady had been put in her place in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon and was now in need ...

Police are investigating an incident where shots were fired at the house of Racing Victoria’s chief steward Terry Bailey. It is believed Bailey and his family were out the back of their home in T...

The headlines say Betfair 'lost' its court case against Racing NSW -- but the truth lies in the fine detail of the judge's summing-up. In it, he paves the way for Betfair to appeal his ruling. Reac...