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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...

Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker will use the Queen Of the Turf Stakes as a prelude to the Doncaster Mile after trainer Greg Eurell reset the mare's autumn agenda.Initially Eurell was keen to aim at ...

Pinker Pinker's Cox Plate victory has given trainer Tim Martin reason to be optimistic about the summer prospects of Fibrillation.As three-year-old fillies, the pair clashed twice with Fibrillation...

A trainer who thought his dream had come true a quarter of a century ago and a horse with more heart than he knew combined with a jockey who pulled off a miracle to fulfil a Cox Plate dream at Moon...

Unbeaten filly Sweet Ella has trainer Greg Eurell bullish about her prospects of making it to the Group One Thousand Guineas this spring.Comparisons are already being made with stablemate Pinker Pi...

Greg Eurell says Caulfield Cup prospect Pinker Pinker hasn't missed a beat in the lead-up to her return in Saturday's Group Three Cockram Stakes at Caulfield.The Reset mare is having her first star...

Green Moon has retained the second line of betting after drawing gate #5 for Sat's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. The Macedon Lodge import's jockey Craig Williams, who won last year's Cox Plate aboard...