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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...

A while or so back, I offered you an idea based on acronyms, or mnemonics. What on earth is an acronym? If you think back to your schooldays you might well have used them. Who knows, you might ...

In this article, UK expert Philip Alexander, one of Britain's most acclaimed form and systems experts, concludes his feature on John Mort "The Butterfly" Green, the Australian punter who became hi...

My father, a throwback from the Victorian age, was often given to uttering platitudes as though he had just invented them. When my interest in dog-paddling across the treacherous English channel h...

This time last year I was gearing up for a lot of things that didn’t happen. The culprit was a hideous disease called equine influenza, which decimated the thoroughbred livestock industry in New S...