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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...

BE IT ON YOUR OWN HEAD.When Black Caviar came out of the 10,000 there were numerous bleats from disgruntled punters."We should be given our money back", they wailed.In the name of fairness, WHY???W...

Held at a racecourse that could just as easily have been sold off as a graveyard, the Caulfield Cup boasts a tradition almost as old as the Melbourne Cup.Many trainers say the race is even harder t...

Trainer John Bary has no problems taking the unconventional path to the Cox Plate, leaving Jimmy Choux without a race for five weeks going into the weight-for-age championship.Jimmy Choux proved he...

If we had a dollar for all the people with an anti-racing bent over the years who warned us that the jockeys' whips were actually striking their boots, not the horses, we'd have quite a pile of ca...

When a horse with a 6 per cent strike rate bolts home at more than 44/1 it gets us punters scratching our heads. How the hell did that win, we ask ourselves (and anyone else close by)? The bona...

From Racing Post HK www.racing.scmp.comA photo-finish in the final race was the difference that saw Brett Prebble hold sway in the Jockey Challenge at Happy Valley last night but the story of the n...