Parade Ground Horse

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...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

While many of his rivals behind him were scrambling to stay on their feet, frontrunner Rabbuka ran away with the Festival Stakes at Rosehill.In what chief steward Ray Murrihy described as "horrendo...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

Father and son Pat and Wayne Webster will chase their first feature race success as a training partnership when Parfumier lines up in the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick.The pair has worked c...

Father and son Pat and Wayne Webster will chase their first feature race success as a training partnership when Parfumier lines up in the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick.The pair has worked c...

Father and son Pat and Wayne Webster will chase their first feature race success as a training partnership when Parfumier lines up in the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick.The pair has worked c...