Mr Pointer 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...

This is the second of a three-part series in which George 'Barker' Bellfield reveals the private collection of greyhound systems compiled over 40 years by a British professional punter known as Mr...

PETER Moody's domination of Victorian racing over the last two years could well extend to Sydney today when last season's leading trainer tackles the group 1 double of the Epsom and Metropolitan ha...

Bart Cummings is resigned to relying on Dandaad to break his Sydney Cup drought with emerging stayer Joe Blow named second emergency for Saturday's distance feature at Randwick.The field is restric...

If you are going to have a pre-post bet on the Melbourne Cup, the time to have it is debatable. You can be a lucky Brian Blackwell and pick something at astronomical odds, and who is to say that B...