Moments Of Magic 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...

Horseracing has always been a personal issue for most punters. Most punters initially start the punt to win money but as time goes by the real horseracing enthusiast extracts the magic moments and ...

Sweet Idea will get the opportunity to avenge her narrow defeat in the Magic Millions carnival as a two-year-old in the $1 million Guineas in three weeks after a strong win first-up at Wyong on T...

Trainer Gillian Heinrich fulfilled a lifetime ambition when grand filly Military Rose extended her unbeaten streak in the $2 million BMW Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast. Milita...

Wow! What would racing be without blokes like Glen Boss? He's a colorful character in a world that seems to frown on them these days. Bossy's joy at winning the Cox Plate on Ocean Park was infectio...

Brad Wallace provided his father, Gold Coast trainer John Wallace, with one of the proudest moments of his long career when the apprentice landed a winner at his first metropolitan ride at Doomben ...

Country jockey Mathew Cahill is in the box seat for more city success on Saturday.Cahill, who plies his trade mainly on the NSW bush circuit, enjoyed one of his finest moments in the saddle with a ...