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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...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...

A look at the results of 54 races on one recent Saturday showed that 36 races (66 per cent) were won by horses whose starting price was 5/1 or under. A total of 45 races (83 per cent) were won by ...

Racing is awash with theories, systems, beliefs, slogans ... all claiming to know how to unlock the door that leads straight to the winner or provide cast-iron evidence for why that standout favou...