Scrambling 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...

Mainland China's megarich are keen to win a Melbourne Cup - and who better to make it happen than Bart Cummings? It seems the Chinese are scrambling to own a stayer picked out and trained by the mi...

Jason Warren believes Bel Sprinter could be the horse he has been waiting for despite his scrambling win to keep his unbeaten record intact at Flemington.The Mornington trainer feared the Bel Espri...

Eclair Mystic has kept his Australian Guineas hopes alive with a hard-fought win in the Listed Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Robert Smerdon said the Stratum three-year-old would push on towa...

While many of his rivals behind him were scrambling to stay on their feet, frontrunner Rabbuka ran away with the Festival Stakes at Rosehill.In what chief steward Ray Murrihy described as "horrendo...

A sudden shortage of senior jockeys has given at least two apprentice riders an unexpected shot at black-type success at Randwick on Saturday.As six of the top 10 jockeys on the premiership table a...

Paul O'Sullivan's yard is firing on all cylinders and lightly raced  Dilly  should snare him some more silverware in the Hong Kong Exchanges Challenge Cup (1,200m) at Happy Valley tonight, reports...