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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...

"Bring on the Diamond," was the confident call from trainer Steve Richards after his super filly Rostova won the Blue Diamond Prelude for fillies at Caulfield on Sunday.Jockey Steven King was just ...

"Bring on the Diamond," was the confident call from trainer Steve Richards after his super filly Rostova won the Blue Diamond Prelude for fillies at Caulfield on Sunday.Jockey Steven King was just ...

Steve Richards will be in Sydney this autumn on unfinished business.Three years ago the Victorian trainer brought Irazu north for a two-start autumn campaign and almost came away with some major sp...

Steve Richards will be in Sydney this autumn on unfinished business.Three years ago the Victorian trainer brought Irazu north for a two-start autumn campaign and almost came away with some major sp...

It has been 20 years since Melbourne trainer Steve Richards has taken a horse to Tasmania and he returns with the in-form Playwright in Monday's $400,000 Hobart Cup.Richards recalled taking Drummin...

Rostova bounced back from her Blue Diamond failure when she romped home in the Group Two VRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington and trainer Steve Richards hasn't ruled out a Golden Slipper start f...