Pay For The Thrill 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...

Semi-retired veterinarian Ian Shaw has dabbled in training thoroughbreds for the past 42 years with limited success, but he had his day in the hot Canterbury sun Saturday when winning the New Zeala...

A decision not to roll the dice during the Brisbane winter carnival could pay off in the spring for connections of Rothera who makes his comeback at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Ben Currie has penci...

Veteran New Zealand jockey Noel Harris has scotched any rumours of retirement in the wake of his latest Group One victory in Saturday's Telegraph Handicap.Harris, 55 earlier this month, gave Tim an...

South Australian Libby Hopwood celebrated the biggest thrill of her career when she wore Sheikh Mohammed's colours to victory in an apprentices only race at Canterbury.The 21-year-old gained an ins...

Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...

For many years now, the trifecta has been the "thrill kill" bet for Australia's legion of horse-racing punters. Frankly, we love it. It offers one of the few chances for a big payout for a small ...