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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...

Jockey Greg Childs has paid tribute to champion mare Sunline who has been put down after losing her long battle with laminitis, a disease affecting the hooves.Childs said it was a sad day for racin...

The seemingly ageless Takeover Target produced one of the most dominant displays of his career to win the TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick with regular partner Jay Ford watching from the sidelines.Heavy...

Sydney's pin-up filly Streama responded to the challenge from her first-up conqueror to turn the tables with a narrow but impressive victory in Saturday's Group Two Surround Stakes at Warwick Farm....

Long Run blocked Kauto Star's march into racing history as the young pretender denied his rival a record-breaking fifth victory in the King George VI Chase.It had been suggested since Boxing Day 20...

Metal Bender signalled he would be a force in the spring's biggest races when he led in a Chris Waller-trained trifecta in the Group Two Warwick Stakes.The triple Group One winner firmed from $23 t...

Metal Bender signalled he would be a force in the spring's biggest races when he led in a Chris Waller-trained trifecta in the Group Two Warwick Stakes.The triple Group One winner firmed from $23 t...