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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...

The Optimist (TO): Welcome to the interview chair Damien. Is this your first time being interviewed? Damien Whitchurch (DW): It is for PPM. I assume we’re here to talk horses? TO: Definitely! I ...

I could easily provide you with fifty-two ways of winning, one for each week of the year, and some of them would win on some weeks. Others would fly high on other occasions, probably on the weeks ...

I could easily provide you with fifty-two ways of winning, one for each week of the year, and some of them would win on some weeks. Others would fly high on other occasions, probably on the weeks ...