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Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

In Australian horse racing a wide barrier draw is worth almost nothing at one track and up to two lengths at another — the same number, a different meaning at every course. In June 1986, writing as...

At one Victorian horse racing track the home straight is 461m, and at another it is 200m. The punter who always backs the horse that gets over the top of them late is making the same bet on two cou...

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...

There are growing concerns that boom filly Atlantic Jewel may not race for another 9 to 12 months. Apparently, her conditions has improved since a suspected hamstring injury was discovered, but vet...

So You Think and his trainer Bart Cummings were the headline acts of the spring for reasons of sadness as well as joy.Cummings' health was a major concern and the 82-year-old was hospitalised with ...

Magic Millions aspirants Schiffer and Top Drop continue to please trainer Gerald Ryan with Queensland's weather his only concern over the next couple of weeks.With floods ravaging Rockhampton in ce...

Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...

Heavy rain wreaked havoc on the Easter Monday program at Randwick with two of the three stakes races scheduled for the course proper transferred to the Kensington track and the final race abandoned...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh has questioned the faith punters have put in Raffaello who has been heavily backed for his first test at Group One level in Saturday's Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfiel...