Old Town Road 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...

Kim Craft came to Queensland in unfortunate circumstances around four years ago but will head back interstate if Lucky Dubai wins at Eagle Farm.Craft has pencilled in the Group Three Hawkesbury Cup...

Sydney's weather will dictate if Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington encounters better fortune than he did during his last visit south.Whittington is in town with talented mare Femina Fashion as ...

Mick Kent has autumn carnival aspirations for You Think So but first he will try to win in town with the lightly-raced stayer.The rising four-year-old will be trying to land his first metropolitan ...

James McDonald's path to his first Golden Slipper ride on Ashokan started seven months ago on an early spring morning at Randwick.As McDonald prepared to put two of John O'Shea's three Golden Slipp...

Bart Cummings won't get the chance to further enhance his amazing record of 13 Australian Cups after he didn't accept with last year's winner Sirmione, but his son Anthony might win his first with ...

Bart Cummings won't get the chance to further enhance his amazing record of 13 Australian Cups after he didn't accept with last year's winner Sirmione, but his son Anthony might win his first with ...