Fill Up 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...

Sydney's Hugh Bowman will be the fill in jockey for Craig Williams on top mare Ortensia when she has her next two Grp 1 starts in Brisbane.

The sometimes unorthodox training methods used on a Doncaster winner have been revisited in a bid to help Fill The Page post a breakthrough victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.After weeks of remed...

The mother and son training partnership of Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones celebrated a hometown victory with Fill The Page in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday.It was Joseph's first Canberr...

Cranbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths is hopeful that lightly-raced four-year-old Beltrois can step up and fill a void with for the stable in the major sprints this summer.Eight-year-old Cocinero, wh...

Racing is rich in the bloodlines of visiting New Zealand trainer Adrian Bull who is back on mission number two for the Brisbane winter carnival.Bull made his first trip to Brisbane last winter with...

Glen Boss believes an apparent lack of depth among Australia's weight-for-age middle distance horses can help create spring opportunities for Shamrocker, a prized carnival ride for the leading jock...