Summer Force Horse

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 storming finish has carried Guiseppina past Australian favourite Atomic Force and on to victory in the Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham.Atomic Force was bidding to complete the New Zealan...

Peter Moody praised the tenacity of Mid Summer Music after she toughed it out to land her first black-type success in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.Jockey Luke Nolen was caught fo...

A stunned Linda Meech couldn't believe her mount Mid Summer Music was able to get up and win from a seemingly impossible position at Moonee Valley on Saturday.Meech said she thought the Peter Moody...

An inside draw in Saturday's Telegraph Handicap has top jockey Nash Rawiller upbeat about the prospects of Atomic Force claiming New Zealand's summer sprint double.The last-start Railway Stakes win...

The strength of Australia's sprinting ranks is likely to force a rethink of Group One winner Pressday's autumn preparation.The three-year-old will take his place in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Gui...

Peter Moody says it is worth having a shot at the stumps with honest mare Mid Summer Music in Saturday's Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.The Oamaru Force mare has been very honest throu...