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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...

TRAINER David Hayes ordered his well-credentialled import Rebel Soldier be gelded yesterday morning after the rogue galloper put one of his staff in hospital after attacking him, reports The Age.It...

Guy Walter is not renowned for attacking the big races for two-year-olds but says Exceed And Exalt deserves his chance in the Sires' Produce Stakes on Saturday.The trainer's biggest success in a ju...

Leading trainer Peter Moody is attacking Saturday's Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington with three runners, with the stable's number one jockey Luke Nolen engaged to ride the very much in-form Th...

Back-breaking weights haven't dissuaded leading owner Lloyd Williams from attacking obscure races at Caulfield with Cox Plate runner-up Zipping and Melbourne Cup placegetter C'est La Guerre.Zipping...

Any punter setting out to 'beat the trifecta' should immediately begin to think about multiple combinations. As someone who has spent many years dabbling in trifectas (at one stage, a few years b...

Any punter setting out to 'beat the trifecta' should immediately begin to think about multiple combinations. As someone who has spent many years dabbling in trifectas (at one stage, a few years b...