Passing Through 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...

Consistent galloper La Rocket capped off a long winter and spring campaign with a comfortable win in the inaugural Listed Spring Classic at Seymour.Prepared by Dale Sutton, the gelding will be spel...

Consistent galloper La Rocket capped off a long winter and spring campaign with a comfortable win in the inaugural Listed Spring Classic at Seymour.Prepared by Dale Sutton, the gelding will be spel...

Patrick Shaw's assertions Rocket Man is a better sprinter than Black Caviar have been scoffed at by John McNair, trainer of Doomben 10,000 favourite Hay List.Black Caviar is currently resting ahead...

Queensland sprinter Temple Of Boom has maintained his love of Flemington with a rocket-like finish to land the Group Two Gilgai Stakes.Ridden by premier New Zealand jockey James McDonald on Sunday,...

High-class sprinter Lucky Secret has smashed a 14-year-old course record at Caulfield, fuelling speculation he could become an international sprinter later this year.The Rubiton gelding left the ga...

In the last two issues of PPM, my old schoolmate and colleague Roman Kozlovski has drawn from his personal experiences of more than 40 years on the punt, forwarding to readers his five most valuab...