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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...

Looking good...Next challenge for the impressive Rosehill winner Pane In The Glass is the Blue Diamond Stakes 1200m at Caulfield. PITG easily won Sat's $250,000 Inglis Classic at Rosehill. She coas...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...

Kiwi trainer John Wheeler had 5 winners in NZ on Wednesday -- so watch out for the in-form mentor in the two feature-jumps races at Sandown on Saturday. Wheeler has Yamanaura in the Australian Hurd...

THE horseracing interests of self-made mining magnate Nathan Tinkler are in deep financial crisis after having failed to meet the superannuation payments of its workers since November, says a front...

TREAD WARILY!Courtesy of the Melbourne Racing Club, I'll be at Caulfield this weekend, with my good pal Roman Koz (who's over there opposite me, on the front page).I wish I could say that the weath...