Second Bullet 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...

Six-year-old Sniper's Bullet won his first race since the Stradbroke Handicap in 2007 when he took out the Group One $1 million Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.In so doing the six-year-old Bite...

Michael Cahill has snared the ride on Sniper's Bullet who could begin his Queensland campaign as soon as next Saturday's Sir Byrne Hart Stakes at Eagle Farm.Sniper's Bullet won the Group One Stradb...

Big-race jockey Jim Cassidy has a great chance of landing his 100th Group One win after being booked to ride Sniper's Bullet in the Kingston Town Classic in Perth.Cassidy was elated after receiving...

A jockey who won on Sniper's Bullet long before he became a star has been recalled to the fray to help revive the Group One winner's career.Accomplished bush rider Mathew Cahill has been booked to ...

Tracey Bartley is planning a double attack on the Stradbroke Handicap with full brothers Sniper's Bullet and Slick Sniper.Sniper's Bullet, winner of the 2007 Stradbroke, has been confirmed as a sta...

Trainer Tracey Bartley will have an anxious couple of days waiting to hear if Blake Shinn is available to ride Sniper's Bullet at Flemington on Saturday.Shinn will lodge an appeal on Monday against...