Liberty Island 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...

THE perfect start to the 2010 jumps racing season ended yesterday at Warrnambool when the John Wheeler-trained hurdler Sirrocean Storm was put down after an incident during the running of the Galle...

Brett Prebble sealed a winning treble and the riding honours at Sha Tin on Sunday in extraordinary scenes when a flash storm hit the racecourse just as jockeys and club staff were preparing to sta...

Trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai had rookie sensation Karis Teetan pegged as a Happy Valley specialist from the moment he saw him in a race and the Mauritian continued his spectacular start to the seas...

Despite taking Hong Kong by storm in what has been a lucrative short-term stint - which continued with a treble yesterday - in-demand jockey Tommy Berry says he has no regrets...

From NEIL FRANKLYNIRISH CHARMER5h : K Myers : Wanganui7 starts : 2 wins : 4 placesWin distance range : 2000m - 2200mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyThis North Island-trained middle-distance p...

Bart Cummings has ended the Group One season with yet another string to his bow as the country's leading trainer at the elite level.Peter Moody had the chance to equal the master when Set For Fame ...