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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...

Mick Price's Golden Slipper 'team' got its first look at a right-handed track when all four members trialed at Royal Randwick on Monday morning. Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up  Jabali  and third-p...

Can you 'buy' Caulfield and Melbourne Cup success? The answer's probably yes - and the OTI Racing syndicate is certainly going all-out with its buyup of European stayers. Latest news is that top UK...

Puissance De Lune ($8) heads a strong contingent of Australian-trained gallopers  

Here comes the overkill...Latest reports say the Victorian racing watchdog has called on the Victorian government to ask police to set up a racing corruption squad as part of the biggest proposed o...

THE two best thoroughbred sprinters in Australia will be in action in rather different circumstances on Friday, reports The Age. It says: There will be an official cheer squad and millions of eyes ...

Chris Waller's bid for a third Doncaster Mile will take further shape in an environment far removed from the autumn carnival's Group One spotlight.Waller confirmed the Chipping Norton Stakes winner...