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Victoria can proudly boast many of the best country racetracks in Australia. Quite a number of them offer spacious, testing courses which offer every runner a chance. The best courses, in my opi...

Can any Practical Punting Monthly readers remember back to the 'dark' days before 1985, when there wasn't such a magazine as this? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? In those bygone days, punt...

The late Don Scott once wrote that the best form of exotic betting is the trifecta. I think he was right. Don said picking a trifecta winning bet was a test of skill rather than a game of chance. ...

I’ve spent years trying to beat the TAB and bookies and I’ve lost my bank more times than I can remember. There have been a few big wins; as many as a man with only three fingers could count on ...

Greyhound racing is probably the best system under which a punter in Australia can risk - or rather, invest - his hard earned dough. To my way of thinking there is nothing so good as a standout "...

Each to his own. Know the old saying? In a way, it sums up betting. Some punters like to bet for a win, others for a place, still others love the quinellas or trifectas, or doubles. It's all a mat...

Can Black Caviar become as 'famous' and as deep in the hearts of Aussies as Phar Lap? Well, the idea is being pushed along in the daily press. One turf scribbler, Melbourne's Andrew Eddy, writes: '...

She's done what Phar Lap did.Now Black Caviar has only herself to be compared with.The fastest and most exhilarating racehorse in Australia, and definitely one of the best in the world, Black Cavia...

Does Black Caviar deserve to be ranked alongside Australia's greatest racehorse Phar Lap?It's an impossible question to compare horses of different eras but not one of the 20,134 racegoers who turn...

Britain's racing writers are ripping Luke Nolen to shreds in the wake of his 'blunder from Down Under' on Black Caviar. In the Mail on Sunday, Jonathan Powell thundered: 'Had Nolen's schoolboy howl...

Queanbeyan trainer Neville Layt is excited about brilliant filly Karuta Queen taking on world champion sprinter Black Caviar in Saturday's Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield."It's a feather in her cap j...

In a sport notorious for irrelevant comparisons between champions of different eras, an exception has emerged that helps answer the one slight knock on the unbeaten sprinter Black Caviar.As undenia...