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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...

Battlefield has cemented his status as one of racing's rising stars, becoming the first three-year-old to win the Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton in more than a decade.Grand sprinter Cangronde ...

Battlefield has cemented his status as one of racing's rising stars, becoming the first three-year-old to win the Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton in more than a decade.Grand sprinter Cangronde ...

One-time Golden Slipper prospect Streets Away is finally set to make his Sydney debut - 20 months after his trainer had first planned.The Alan Bailey-trained Queenslander was all set to test out hi...

A tilt at the Doncaster Mile at Randwick is on the cards for star sprinter-miler Mufhasa after his dominant victory in the Group One Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa in Hamilton.Mufhasa sat outside the le...

A tilt at the Doncaster Mile at Randwick is on the cards for star sprinter-miler Mufhasa after his dominant victory in the Group One Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa in Hamilton.Mufhasa sat outside the le...

A tilt at the Doncaster Mile at Randwick is on the cards for star sprinter-miler Mufhasa after his dominant victory in the Group One Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa in Hamilton.Mufhasa sat outside the le...