Take The Field 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...

Will he or won't he...The guessing game continues for UK stayer Sans Frontieres and whether he'll be here for the Melbourne Cup. The odds seem to be favoring a Cup start for the Irish St Leger winn...

Will he or won't he? This is the question surrounding UK stayer Sans Frontiere and the likelihood of a Melbourne Cup start. Talk is that the 2kgs penalty he copped for winning the Irish St Leger wi...

Now it looks like he will...After 24 hours of doubt, there's renewed hope that Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres WILL be a starter in the Melbourne Cup. A final decision has yet to be made but ...

Chief handicapper Greg Carpenter has defended a two kilo Melbourne Cup penalty for international stayer Sans Frontieres for his win in the Group One Irish St Leger.Carpenter conceded connections ma...

A Melbourne Cup bid is 'very much on the cards' for UK stayer Sans Frontiere after his victory in the 2800m Irish St Leger at The Curragh overnight. Sans Frontieres swept down the outside of the fi...

Big blow for the carnival...Sans Frontieres has been ruled out of next month's Melbourne Cup with a muscle-related illness. At The Races reports: 'Jeremy Noseda's four-year-old had been one of the ...