Bouffant 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...

If Vision And Power wins the Queen Elizabeth Stakes he will be on the short list for Horse of the Year honours, something that makes trainer Joe Pride shake his head in wonder.Pride's admiration fo...

With five placings from seven starts, Circle Of Power will have one last chance to register a win as a two-year-old when he lines up in the Rosebud Quality at Rosehill.Circle Of Power took on some ...

With five placings from seven starts, Circle Of Power will have one last chance to register a win as a two-year-old when he lines up in the Rosebud Quality at Rosehill.Circle Of Power took on some ...

With five placings from seven starts, Circle Of Power will have one last chance to register a win as a two-year-old when he lines up in the Rosebud Quality at Rosehill.Circle Of Power took on some ...

With five placings from seven starts, Circle Of Power will have one last chance to register a win as a two-year-old when he lines up in the Rosebud Quality at Rosehill.Circle Of Power took on some ...

Russell Clarke is one of Britain's most successful professional punters. He writes for the popular magazine Odds On and runs his own Internet site. In this special article, he gives his views on b...