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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...

from RACING POST in HKLightly raced five-year-old Five Clubs has had his issues but seems to have found a niche over the dirt sprint trip and that stands him in good stead in tonight's Tsuen Wan Ne...

Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Pleasure Gains can win the Achievement Handicap (1,650m) at Happy Valley but even that might now allow him to steal the 1010 Million Challenge from Bullish Boy, repor...

Midweek trophy races don't come any tougher than the Indian Recreation Club Challenge Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley tonight but a return to firmer ground could be enough to swing the tables the way...

The Caspar Fownes-trained Mighty K gets the right draw in the right tempo to bounce back among the winners in tonight's Police Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley. A good draw is usually a positive arou...

The Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Heart Wood has been on the verge of doing something worthwhile, but the five-year-old gets his best chance to do it in the Ta Kung Pao 110th Anniversary Cup (1,650m...

Back in Class Four for the first time since winning there last season and with the help of in-form apprentice Dicky Lui Cheuk-yin's claim, Fortune Bravo   looms as the best banker in the openi...