Right Or Wrong Horse

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...

áPutting on a PumpkinThe retired ace commentator and thorough gentleman, John Tapp, frequently used to make the comment that the punter sometimes can leave his head in the cloak room and put on a...

WAS THAT ME?Vigor's $26 for the Caulfield Cup collapsed late last week. I just wondered whether or not it was down to my comments here. Probably not, and probably a weenie bit immodest, but then he...

We ended last month’s session with the following comments: “The biggest one of all for a form follower is what we call the wrong day.” We were talking about reasons and specifically about losing...

Peter Snowden is convinced Kidnapped races best in the anticlockwise direction but will give him one more chance to prove him wrong in Saturday's Group One Rosehill Guineas.All four of Kidnapped's ...

Peter Snowden is convinced Kidnapped races best in the anticlockwise direction but will give him one more chance to prove him wrong in Saturday's Group One Rosehill Guineas.All four of Kidnapped's ...

Trainer Mike Moroney is warming to Wall Street breaking his hoodoo on right-handed tracks in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.Moroney has dismissed Wall Street's last start failure...