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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...

Ever wondered how many punters actually make sense of all the track gallops reports in the newspapers and major form guides? We all know those times mean a lot, but how the heck can you work it ...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed 'Horizontal' who thought he was a ...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...