Classic Catch 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...

Trainer Pat Duff has drawn favourable comparisons between Steel Zip and his million dollar earner Hard To Catch ahead of the gelding's crucial test for a trip interstate at Eagle Farm on Saturday.S...

Trainer John Hawkes says he is playing catch up with Makybe Diva's $1.2 million half-brother Shadowofexcellence who will be on trial for the Victoria Derby in the Group Three Norman Robinson Stakes...

Classic Jewellery  has always been at his best fresh over the Happy Valley 1,650m and a change of trainer shouldn't stop that being the key to the six-year-old being hard to beat in the Hong Kon...

A capacity field of 20 will line-up in Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide. When the field was finalised today, the barrier draw threw up some serious ‘nastie...

Rob Heathcote believes Buffering can prove he's the real deal by claiming the trainer his third Champagne Classic at Doomben on Saturday.Buffering is unbeaten in four starts, including two over the...

Rob Heathcote believes Buffering can prove he's the real deal by claiming the trainer his third Champagne Classic at Doomben on Saturday.Buffering is unbeaten in four starts, including two over the...