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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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNWAI NOT4g : Trainer - Glenn Old4 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1370m - 1400mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyChestnut gelding who's impressed me during each o...

áLast night as the witching hour stole upon me - its approach masked by the sound of raindrops flung from the clouds in wretched pacts of ankle-deep treachery (a month's worth drenched Melbourne in...

General consensus is that the Racing Appeals Board should have little trouble tossing out those serious charges against Danny Nikolic. Why? Stewards in real-time found nothing wrong with his rides....

A masterful display by Jim Cassidy aboard Maules Creek at Randwick showed why he is rated among the best ever.The 48-year-old drove the $2.60 favourite between Raspberries ($5) and Chula Vista ($26...

  In this article, we introduce a new P.P.M. contributor, Philip Roy, a retired bank manager from Sydney who has been a devoted 'form analyst' for 40 years. Here he examines why winning horses wo...

When a horse with a 6 per cent strike rate bolts home at more than 44/1 it gets us punters scratching our heads. How the hell did that win, we ask ourselves (and anyone else close by)? The bona...