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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...

ANTHONY Cummings said recently he would be surprised the day Smart Missile was beaten, reports the Daily Telegraph in Sydney.It says: It was a chilling comment from an experienced horseman who is l...

Glyn Schofield didn't like the appearance of Manawanui when he first laid eyes on him as a young horse, but he certainly changed his opinion of the gelding once he got on his back.Trained at Warwic...

Cash in on Bart? Master blaster Bart Cummings has a strong list of runners lined up for Melbourne's big spring "majors" and Betstar's Alan Eskander is giving punters the chance to back their opinio...

David Hayes headed to Moonee Valley thinking Gregers was his leading hope for this year’s Schweppes Thousand Guineas, but he left knowing it. The untapped filly announced herself a potential star...

BIG QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.Many questions could start to be answered this weekend, re the big future racing.The demise of Our Aqaleem has opened the Australian Cup right up. Specialist Sirmione i...

Promising filly Big Spirit will try to enhance her pedigree at stakes level next start after scoring an emphatic win at Flemington.The three-year-old daughter of Invincible Spirit made it five wins...