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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...

Having heavily invested on Helmet in opening Guineas markets (and with a pretty solid crack at an early Guineas-Cox Plate double to boot), you could say I was slightly agitated as the gates crashed...

UK raider Jakkalberry caught the eye when he hit the track at Werribee on Wednesday. ''Travelling doesn't seem to worry him at all and he has already started to put on weight,'' says Jakkalberry's ...

The final batch of international horses were scheduled to arrive in Melbourne on Sat to join the four already stationed at Sandown. Expected are Mourilyan (Melbourne Cup) and stablemate Bankable (M...

Look out Brisbane, Sid's on the way...Co-trainer Bill Wilde says his Warrnambool Cup winner Hissing Sid will head north for the Brisbane Cup 2400m. He reckons the prospect of a wet winter carnival ...

Frankel lived up to the billing as he ran out a brilliant winner of the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, UK. The build-up to the contest was intense as the star three-year-old miler took on Canford...

Sir Henry Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mismatch in the Susse...