Salute The Land 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...

Jockey Glen Boss celebrated a special moment when Turffontein scored a hard-fought victory in the Group One Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield but for the connections of two other runners it was a c...

Irish raider Dirar swept through the field to land the big Ebor Hdcp at York UK. Gordon Elliott's 5YO was sent out at 14/1 after his 3rd behind the reopposing Overturn in the Galway Hurdle but whil...

The Fred Kersley-trained Grand Nirvana is rated the best of the locals to repel the strong eastern states challenge in Saturday's $1 million Railway Stakes at Ascot.The Scenic gelding was far from ...

Victorian apprentice Brenton Avdulla began his two-month stint on loan to Gai Waterhouse in the best possible fashion when he booted Dance Idol to a commanding all-the-way win at Canterbury.However...

David Hayes has All American primed to emulate champion Better Loosen Up who, trained by his late father Colin, is the only horse to land the Emirates-Railway Stakes double.Hayes said All American ...