One Up 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...

Only one race assessed for PPD Club members on Monday

Strike One (Chris Waller-Nash Rawiller)and Agent Bauer (Gwenda Markwell-Christian Reith) have opened up early equal favs for Wednesday's Australia Day Cup 2400m at Warwick Farm, according to the ma...

Just one bet for the day from PPD Club editor Brian Blackwell on Monday - and home came SMOOTH DANISH 1st $9.10/$2.60 at Wodonga.   Brian's excellent winning tip followed his $29 winner...

Leading trainer Peter Moody says Set For Fame is in good shape for her attempt at a belated Group One win in Saturday's Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Rosehill.A three-time Group Two winner and a Grou...

Just too hard...Victorian racing officials will try to have racehorses reclassified for quarantine after the shock withdrawal of Hong Kong star Able One from the Cox Plate. Able One's Aussie traine...

Moody blues - no, no...Pre-post punters are throwing support behind the Peter Moody-trained There's Only One in the early betting for Sat's Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington. There's On...