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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...

Why not? Qld trainer Liam Birchley isset for another assault on New Zealand's richest juvenile race...He's taking last-start Brisbane winner Sister Havana to Kiwi Land for a crack at th Karaka Mill...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...

It is a long way from Brisbane to New Zealand for the Karaka Millions at Ellerslie, especially if you have to travel by road first.That's the scenario for the Liam Birchley-trained Sister Havana wh...

Bjorn Baker got the monkey off his back for his new Sydney operation at Canterbury recently and is hoping to build on that city win at the same track on Wednesday.Earlier this month three-year-old ...

Stathi Katsidis hopes to continue his big race form when he heads to New Zealand later this month to partner talented Queensland filly Sister Havana in the Listed Karaka Millions at Ellerslie.Katsi...