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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...

Next Wednesday's Ballarat meeting will now be held on the Geelong Synthetic track. Ballarat was hit badly by the rain that swept Victoria on Wednesday. The rain has left the Sandown steeplechase tr...

RACING NSW heavies Ray Murrihy and Peter V'landys were given credit for the Australian Racing Board's decision yesterday to modify the controversial new whip rules, with the amendments deemed a vic...

The Werribee, Warrnambool and Benalla racetracks will take an extra meeting over the summer period following Racing Victoria's decision to further rest the newly-renovated Ballarat and Wangaratta ...

Pierro's shock defeat in the Caulfield Guineas has forced punters to look elsewhere to find the winner of the Cox Plate. Matt Jenkins of TAB.com.au told PPD: 'As many as six runners are more popula...

Racing officials have defended the decision to switch the last five races at Randwick to the Kensington track on Saturday, saying it was the only way to save the meeting.But Sydney's leading traine...

Racing officials have defended the decision to switch the last five races at Randwick to the Kensington track on Saturday, saying it was the only way to save the meeting.But Sydney's leading traine...