Tommy Blue Horse

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...

Tony McEvoy has engaged Sydney-based Blake Shinn to ride Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Jimando who resumes in Saturday's Chairman's Stakes at Caulfield.The trainer is looking to Shinn to partner th...

One wears a red hat to trackwork and the other wears a blue one and that's how trainer Gary Portelli differentiates between identical twins Nathan and Tommy Berry.But one thing he knows for sure is...

The main focus at the Werribee Quarantine centre this morning was on the Newminster barn where the most recent arrivals, including several leading prospects for the Emirates Melbourne Cup are hou...

Gai Waterhouse is striving for more than a place alongside her father, Tommy Smith, on the Sportingbet Blue Diamond honour roll at Caulfield this Saturday, reports Racing Victoria. The Hall of Fa...

Final field for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup:

Clarry Conners' Golden Slipper stocks were boosted at Randwick on Wednesday with Irish Times and Seven Fly Seven running one-two on debut to begin their journey towards the $3.5 million race.Stable...