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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...

TAB Sportsbet opened Mid Summer Music at $3.60 for Saturday's Grp 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield but a flurry of early hits quicklu moved it to $3.40 and then to $3.10. Rival bookie IASb...

Majestic Music's win during the Melbourne Cup carnival confirmed trainer Leon Macdonald's high opinion of the filly and set her up to take on the males in the Sandown Guineas.Prior to her win in th...

Majestic Music's win during the Melbourne Cup carnival confirmed trainer Leon Macdonald's high opinion of the filly and set her up to take on the males in the Sandown Guineas.Prior to her win in th...

In the wake of The Idiots...Music fans trying to gain illegal access to the Melbourne Big Day Out are believed to have caused career-threatening injuries to at least two horses from the Flemington ...

Peter Moody says it is worth having a shot at the stumps with honest mare Mid Summer Music in Saturday's Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.The Oamaru Force mare has been very honest throu...

John O'Shea is inclined to keep Music Review in Sydney this preparation in a quest to claim stakes success in the coming weeks.The mare was nominated for the Group One Doomben Cup but O'Shea said t...