Speed King 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 PPD Club's 'king of the longshots' Brian Blackwell was right on target again on Monday (Mar 24) landing SPEED OF DARK 1st $14.80 at Grafton. Here's what he told PPD Club members about hi...

The former Australian galloper  Winning King  has been working up to something and a drop in class coincides nicely for him with the Hong Kong Football Club Centenary Challenge Cup (1,200m) at ...

Steven King is happy to take his opportunities when they come and another one has arisen on Saturday when he rides three-time Group One winner Efficient in the $1 million Mackinnon Stakes at Flemin...

Trainer David Hall told the owners of brilliant speedster Blaze King he thought he "could finish the season the same way he started it" before Sunday's Pok Fu Lam Handicap (1,000m) and was as good ...

from RACING POST HKPunters might have their hearts in their mouths at some stage, but a wide gate might bring at least one blessing with Turbo King in tonight's Wayfoong Centenary Bowl (1,000m) at ...

from RACING POST HKJohn Size-trained horses usually make a successful transition from Happy Valley to Sha Tin, but King Mossman should take his form on the bigger track successfully to the Valley f...