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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...

One of Australia's oldest metropolitan jockeys has been called on to help revive the career of one of the most precocious talents in Sydney's newly-crowned premier stable.Rodney Quinn, 50, emerged ...

Trainer Joe Pride will decide later this week whether boom sprinter Rain Affair will join stablemate Neeson in Saturday's Group Three Missile Stakes at Randwick.Rain Affair took his record to six w...

Another meeting off...Tuesday's meeting at Nowra NSW has been called off due to the rain-affected state of the track. More rain fell overnight.Winter blues...Sydney's champion jockey Nash Rawiller ...

The Golden Slipper focus was firmly on second favourite Smart Missile on Tuesday following a scintillating workout at Randwick and a favourable barrier draw for Saturday's $3.5 million race.The Ant...

If racing was only about the best looking horses winning, Rain Affair would be an outsider - and not the warm favourite - to win the Missile Stakes.Luckily for the Rain Affair camp racing doesn't d...

Emerging sprinter Rain Affair will have a barrier trial on Tuesday week as he prepares for his resumption in the Carrington Stakes.The four-year-old underlined his promise in the winter with a hat-...