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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...

Young trainer David Pfieffer celebrated the biggest win of his short career when Graceful Anna set a track record to score a scorching victory in the $100,000 Magic Millions Stakes at Wyong.The 29-...

Young trainer David Pfieffer celebrated the biggest win of his short career when Graceful Anna set a track record to score a scorching victory in the $100,000 Magic Millions Stakes at Wyong.The 29-...

Glyn Schofield says he is confident he will be able to ride at Saturday's Golden Slipper meeting despite having to forfeit rides at Randwick on Wednesday due to a headache.The jockey said the heada...

Melbourne Cup on the agenda...That's the word from the Bart Cummings camp following the assured win of So You Think in the 2000m Yalumba at Caulfield. Now as hot as you can get for the Cox Plate, S...

Kerrin McEvoy could not have asked for a better welcome home present than the victory All the Good gave him in Saturday's Caulfield Cup.Reunited with the global powerhouse stable of Godolphin which...

A sales reject who was retired in the spring and only had her racing career resurrected when she failed to get into foal has delivered young trainer Paul Messara his first Group One victory.Alverta...