Hammer 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...

Dennis Yip Chor-hong-trained  Lucky Hammer  did a few things wrong in his long-awaited breakthrough win last time but that should stand him in good stead as he rises in grade in the Sauternes Cup ...

The knockers are out for Faint Perfume - and it's the bookies who are saying she's a risk in the AJC Oaks. Two of them reckon, Sportingbet Australia's Michael Sullivan and Betchoice's Col Tidy, rec...

Short-course specialist Sequallan will be striving to give trainer Neville Saunders his first Brisbane winner at Eagle Farm before going under the hammer.Saunders has been training for just over a ...

Short-course specialist Sequallan will be striving to give trainer Neville Saunders his first Brisbane winner at Eagle Farm before going under the hammer.Saunders has been training for just over a ...

Short-course specialist Sequallan will be striving to give trainer Neville Saunders his first Brisbane winner at Eagle Farm before going under the hammer.Saunders has been training for just over a ...

Do we bring bad luck on ourselves? Do some of us subconsciously attract all the 'negatives' in this world? When we bet, are we just 'hard luck Harrys'? I guess that, like me, you've heard friends...