Brilliant Mind Horse

Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...

At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...

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...

A year ago Brilliant Light rose through the ranks to become one of the stories of the autumn carnival, culminating in his third place in the Doncaster Mile.His spring campaign was halted after thre...

Talented sprinter Mind Your Head is set to give Wangaratta trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The much-maligned six-year-old avoided the spring horses with an extend...

Maligned galloper Mind Your Head has rewarded the patience of his connections and delivered on a six month plan to give trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The six-ye...

Trainer Peter Moody says Typhoon Tracy is forward enough to extend her unbeaten record to six in Saturday's JJ Liston Stakes at Caulfield.But the Caulfield trainer admitted he was surprised that th...

Trainer Peter Moody says Typhoon Tracy is forward enough to extend her unbeaten record to six in Saturday's JJ Liston Stakes at Caulfield.But the Caulfield trainer admitted he was surprised that th...

It was pleasing to see Michael Rodd make something of a comeback with two winners at Caulfield last Saturday (his first city winners since March!) and it could be the start of an extraordinary few ...