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In Australian horse racing the four Melbourne racecourses stand out for their complete difference to each other — and the barrier draw is worth something different at every one. Statsman takes thre...

Australian horse racing runs on so many racetracks, all of varying sizes and designs, that the track itself carries a form guide of its own. Statsman spent five years on winning patterns at Randwic...

Professional gamblers call it 'deep state' handicapping: the horse racing method Bill Benter and Alan Woods used to make millions on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrat...

Most horse racing staking plans tell you to bet bigger after every loser. The 10K System does the opposite — one of three betting systems Peter Travers set out for Australian punters, where the sta...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Do lucky saddlecloth numbers win? In 2007 a Practical Punting writer counted 660 Australian horse racing results — 7,363 runners, every TAB number from one to ten — instead of arguing about it. Num...

Black Caviar's half-brother All Too Hard can put himself into Blue Diamond contention if he can win his race debut at Flemington.The Casino Prince colt is one of six Talindert Stakes runners still ...

It's all done with mirrors...Lloyd Williams is producing his annual juggling act just to keep us all in a knot over which horse is going where...He's now saying that his top stayer C'est La Guerre ...

Stathi Katsidis' grieving fiancee Melissa Jackson has revealed how her act of kindness may have contributed to the champion Queensland jockey's death.Jackson is still in shock after finding Katsidi...

Emerging sprint star Rain Affair added another string to his bow when he stretched out to 1400 metres for the first time with the same winning result in the Apollo Stakes.The $1.50 favourite had th...

Top trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith and owner-breeder Des Pope are set to combine and try for a second Sir John Monash Stakes victory with in-form sprinter Gran Sasso who is closely related to their 2...

Top trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith and owner-breeder Des Pope are set to combine and try for a second Sir John Monash Stakes victory with in-form sprinter Gran Sasso who is closely related to their 2...