Silver Streak 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...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

A little bit of commonsense (but only a little bit)...The Appeal Panel in NSW has halved a $2,000 fine handed to Michael Rodd by Racing NSW stewards for excessive whip use aboard the Bart Cummings-...

THE Victoria Racing Club has increased the prizemoney for the group 1 Mackinnon Stakes to $1 million in a move tipped to attract international runners to the weight-for-age race, reports The Age.It...

Australian racegoers could get their first look at boom Kiwi colt Cauthen as early as next week. Trainer Andrew Campbell is considering a start in the $80,000 3YO benchmark 78 race over 1000 metr...