Profound Effect 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...

Dermot Weld is up to his old tricks again, and this time it's the 'will he, won't he' game with his Melbourne Cup contender Profound Beauty. Although the mare has gone into quarantine, Dermot is st...

How many times have you seen a horse finish strongly to win, only to plod home as an unplaced favourite at its next run? What about the front-runner that defies all challengers in the straight one...

Let’s get straight down to this, because we’ve still got seven points to get through. For anybody that didn’t read the first installment, see the link below to the previous article. The barrier p...

On a personal front, if there is one thing that I have found irksome over the years, it’s that most people I know refer to me as a gambler. Now, mind you, in the literal sense of the word they a...