Lucky One 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...

High class sprinter Lucky Secret is set to farewell handicap racing in the Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Tony Vasil has had the five-year-old in a holding pattern for the past month waiting for the Group ...

High class sprinter Lucky Secret is set to farewell handicap racing in the Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Tony Vasil has had the five-year-old in a holding pattern for the past month waiting for the Group ...

Trainer Danny O'Brien has queried the spring form of a number of Australian Guineas runners including stable hope Lucky Thunder who faces his biggest test in the Flemington feature.O'Brien said tha...

Trainer Danny O'Brien has queried the spring form of a number of Australian Guineas runners including stable hope Lucky Thunder who faces his biggest test in the Flemington feature.O'Brien said tha...

Former Sydney sprinter Lucky Leak is proof that time and patience ultimately bring rewards.Toowoomba trainer Patrick Sexton and part-owner Marty McInerney have between them transformed Lucky Leak w...

Lucky Secret may make a cameo appearance in Tasmania in preference to contesting Melbourne's elite sprints at the end of the month.Trainer Tony Vasil said the weight-for-age Listed Premium Stakes (...