My Country Boy 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...

Nearly two decades ago, a young boy in a small public school in country NSW listened on the radio to Darren Beadman booting home the Bart Cummings-trained Kingston Rule to win the Melbourne Cup.Aft...

Paul Hanagan was crowned champion British Flat jockey for 2010 after an epic battle with Richard Hughes concluded on the final day of the season at Doncaster.Hanagan led from the very first day of ...

The faith once shown by trainer Barbara Joseph in an inexperienced Melbourne apprentice can be repaid four years later at Warwick Farm.Joseph was one of the first trainers to spot the talents of th...

Corey Brown was just a boy following his father around stables in country NSW when he sat on his first Melbourne Cup winner.Just A Dash, who won the 1981 Cup, paid a visit to Taree where Brown's jo...

Corey Brown was just a boy following his father around stables in country NSW when he sat on his first Melbourne Cup winner.Just A Dash, who won the 1981 Cup, paid a visit to Taree where Brown's jo...

Corey Brown was just a boy following his father around stables in country NSW when he sat on his first Melbourne Cup winner.Just A Dash, who won the 1981 Cup, paid a visit to Taree where Brown's jo...