It's A Task Horse

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...

HE DROPS a whopping 4.5 kilograms in weight, but Australia's best jumper Black And Bent will be at his most vulnerable on Sunday when he tackles the $100,000 Lafferty Hurdle at Warrnambool, accordi...

Secret Admirer will join an elite group of mares if she can win Saturday's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill.The Grahame Begg-trained four-year-old has topweight of 58kg with only three mares ...

Star jumper Black And Bent will have to set a modern-day weight-carrying record to win Saturday's Leslie Short Hurdle at Morphettville.The Robert Smerdon-trained gelding has been asked to carry 73....

Uate's weight in the Gosford Guineas concerns trainer Kris Lees more than the track conditions or barrier draw.The stakeswinning colt will carry the top weight of 58kg in Sunday's Listed $250,000 G...

CHAMPION trainer Chris Waller has the same number of runners in the Queen Elizabeth as he did the Doncaster, but the odds say he's facing a massive task to repeat his phenomenal “first four” from...

Tough galloper Maldivian has emerged as the best chance of causing an upset over odds-on favourite Weekend Hussler in Saturday's Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, but his rider Michael Rodd says it's ...