Snowball Horse

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...

Most punters back each-way without ever pricing it. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: an each-way bet is not one bet with a safety net, it is two bets sold in a single tra...

Most punters pick the right horse and still take the wrong odds. This is horse racing betting from 1988 that still holds up: the same selection, a better price, and the four seconds that pay for it.

Most punters read a form guide without ever deciding which parts of it matter. This is horse racing form study from 1992 that still holds up: what a formline tells you, and what it quietly hides.

With the roar of the crowd ringing in his ears, Damien Oliver steered Apache Cat to victory at Moonee Valley to set the popular sprinter up to take on the world.As the big white face of Apache Cat ...

With the roar of the crowd ringing in his ears, Damien Oliver steered Apache Cat to victory at Moonee Valley to set the popular sprinter up to take on the world.As the big white face of Apache Cat ...

Apache Cat is "rock hard fit" for a career defining test in Saturday's Group Two Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) in Perth.A crack at some of the world's best sprinters in next month's Hong Kong Sprint ...

Trainer Greg Eurell believes the fight for Apache Cat to retain his BTC Cup title at Doomben is far from decided despite the baldy-faced sprinter taking early points at Wednesday's barrier draw.Eur...

Australia's reigning champion sprinter Apache Cat is "climbing the walls" to get out and stretch his Group One winning streak in Saturday's Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington.The popular baldy-fac...

The generic ratings I am developing is fairly well set for the sprinters as there are really only a handful of serious sprints left this spring and although there will be different results it will ...