Looming One 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...

Larry Cassidy is in a Brisbane hospital suffering pneumonia, dashing plans for the jockey to make a return to the saddle at next week's Ramornie Handicap meeting at Grafton.Cassidy, who won the Gro...

Larry Cassidy is in a Brisbane hospital suffering pneumonia, dashing plans for the jockey to make a return to the saddle at next week's Ramornie Handicap meeting at Grafton.Cassidy, who won the Gro...

Larry Cassidy is in a Brisbane hospital suffering pneumonia, dashing plans for the jockey to make a return to the saddle at next week's Ramornie Handicap meeting at Grafton.Cassidy, who won the Gro...

It was all too easy for champ Black Caviar at Moonee Valley...She strolled home by 4.25 lens from Zedi Knight. Third placegetter Doubtful Jack was btn 8.75 lens. BC ran the 1200m in 1m 9.44s, the f...

Jockey Larry Cassidy will squeeze in a two week skiing holiday before the end of the season but is refusing to give up the fight for a first Brisbane rider's title.Cassidy, who only started riding ...

Jockey Larry Cassidy will squeeze in a two week skiing holiday before the end of the season but is refusing to give up the fight for a first Brisbane rider's title.Cassidy, who only started riding ...