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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...

Neville Layt has spent his working life in racing waiting for a horse to come along good enough to be in a race like the Golden Sipper.In Magic Millions winner Karuta Queen, the 67-year-old Queanbe...

Deep Pockets Required.They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), Ho...

Top English trainer Luca Cumani knew the Melbourne Cup was a great challenge but could hardly believe what he was seeing at Flemington.For the 12th time Bart Cummings had won the Melbourne Cup and ...

MELBOURNE in the spring. Tokyo at Christmas. Or perhaps Cheltenham next March? The world is at the hooves of spring-heeled jumps champion Black And Bent, who once again proved his class with an eff...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh shook his head in amazement and wiped away tears as his once in a lifetime horse Atlantic Jewel returned from injury with a breathtaking victory at Randwick on Saturday.A reli...

An autumn Group One result for Peter Moody could have some residual value for the Melbourne trainer when he saddles up Ghostmilk at Rosehill on Saturday.The Moody stable says it will learn more abo...