Angus The Black Horse

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...

In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...

At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...

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...

ONE word summed up the emotion John McNair, Hay List's trainer, felt when told Black Caviar would not run in the Doomben 10,000 - "Yahoo", reports the Brisbane Courier-Mail.It says: McNair has conc...

Peter Moody says it's decision time for Set For Fame who could take on Denman in the Australian Guineas if she impressively wins Saturday's Group Two Angus Armanasco Stakes at Caulfield.The daughte...

Melbourne Cup champion Green Moon heads a high class list of 12 nominations for the $500,000 Group 1 Cathay Pacific Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.Should the Team Williams-trained...

Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker is set for a four-race Group One weight-for-age autumn campaign with trainer Greg Eurell ultimately aiming her at the $2.25 million BMW at Rosehill on April 7.The fou...