Too Close the Sun 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...

Jockey Michael Walker is excited about the Victoria Derby prospects of Shadows In The Sun who lines up in the AAMI Vase at Moonee Valley.The Dane Shadow gelding is on trial beyond 1600 metres in Sa...

Group-placed Murray's Sun, the bush horse bought for $900, is much more than a cheap horse comes good fairytale.The lightly-raced six-year-old is proving an inspiration to those close to him and mo...

Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller is expecting better things from  Boban  when he lines-up in Saturday’s Group 2 $250,000 Apollo Stakes (1400m). “First-up he raced a little bit below what w...

It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...

Group winner The Jackal is expected to relish the wide open spaces of Randwick in Saturday's Listed Razor Sharp Handicap.Seven-year-old The Jackal comes into the 1200-metre feature after a nightmar...

Group winner The Jackal is expected to relish the wide open spaces of Randwick in Saturday's Listed Razor Sharp Handicap.Seven-year-old The Jackal comes into the 1200-metre feature after a nightmar...