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Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...

At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...

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...

Moody blues! Peter Moody continues to hand out some tongue-in-cheek chat to the UK racing press as D-Day nears for Black Caviar's Royal Ascot assignment. PM says UK superhorse Frankel had never bee...

Toowoomba trainer Ritchie Stephenson can still hear the words of Queensland Hall Of Fame trainer Jim Griffiths ringing in his ears."Let them come to you son and don't go to them," the former premie...

Toowoomba trainer Ritchie Stephenson can still hear the words of Queensland Hall Of Fame trainer Jim Griffiths ringing in his ears."Let them come to you son and don't go to them," the former premie...

Connections of lightly-raced filly Choice Words have pinned their hopes on apprentice Blake Spriggs in Saturday's Group One Flight Stakes.Along with Kiwi whiz-kid James McDonald, the young rider is...

Kristine Stead was almost lost for words after her horse Jacowils sprung a major surprise in the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie.Jacowils came from the rear of the field under an inspired ride from M...

THERE are still no horses qualified to compete at the start of the 2010 jumps season in just 10 days, so it was fitting that yesterday's launch of the resurrected sport at Warrnambool was a low-key...