Blue Door Horse

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...

Darley's juvenile juggernaut rolled on at Rosehill on Saturday but trainer Peter Snowden slammed the door shut on a Blue Diamond start for Helmet.The Exceed And Excel colt became Snowden's ninth in...

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 ...

Insurance! No, this is not an article about how to keep the door-to-door insurance man at bay. It's about betting insurance. If you are one of those punters legions of them-who refuse to have any...

Insurance! No, this is not an article about how to keep the door-to-door insurance man at bay. It's about betting insurance. If you are one of those punters legions of them-who refuse to have any...

Almindoro gets the chance to vindicate trainer Steve Richards' judgment he is a true Classic type when he lines up in Saturday's blue-ribbon Victoria Derby.Almindoro is the first Redoute's Choice R...

The challenge of trying to take the scalp of a blue blood yearling is too hard to resist for country trainer Brett Cavanough.Cavanough, no stranger to successful bush plunges, immediately shelved p...