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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...

Talented Mark Kavanagh-trained stayer Shamoline Warrior will chase a belated win in the Group Three Easter Cup ahead of a winter spell and a crack at the majors in the spring.The four-year-old has ...

Owner Gary Adrian showed he was a shrewd judge of horses as well as in business when The Clandy Man Can booked a long-range winter carnival campaign at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Adrian paid only $800...

A friendship formed with the view of plundering the spring riches of the Melbourne carnival is set to pay the ultimate reward for owner Geoff Evans and trainer Danny O'Brien at Flemington tomorrow,...

Trainer Barry Baldwin hopes to have a little more luck with Simplest at Eagle Farm than he has had getting Burdekin Blues to Melbourne for the Lightning Stakes.Simplest will be Baldwin's only Eagle...

Trainer Barry Baldwin hopes to have a little more luck with Simplest at Eagle Farm than he has had getting Burdekin Blues to Melbourne for the Lightning Stakes.Simplest will be Baldwin's only Eagle...

Mick Mair is hoping recent rain which has severely disrupted the Brisbane summer carnival could play into the hands of talented colt Chosen To Fly in the Listed Gold Edition Plate at Doomben on Sat...