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Lee Freedman is leaving his options open with promising young stayer Mount Everest.Freedman, who returned from the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sales on Monday, entered Mount Everest for the ...
Jason Coyle is loving life as a Sydney trainer and is hoping Subtle Cove will give Patinack Farm its first stakeswinner out of its Warwick Farm stables.Coyle, 31, relocated from a 20-horse stable a...
Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...
Moments after the Golden Slipper is run each year, a statue of a jockey at the Rosehill winning post is painted in the colours of the victorious owner.John Singleton reckons they can put his blue a...
More Joyous did more than rocket up the Golden Slipper betting charts with a stunning win on debut.The filly confirmed that her trainer Gai Waterhouse might have a modern day freak on her hands.But...
Mick Price says he is a little bit nervous about Light Fantastic maintaining his unbeaten first-up record after the grey drew barrier one for Friday night's Group Two Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valle...
Two-time Group One winner Theseo will be given his chance to become Tulloch Lodge's latest weight-for-age star.Trainer Gai Waterhouse confirmed an exclusive weight-for-age campaign for Theseo after...
Juvenile Alright Already surprised Gary Portelli with his debut victory but the trainer believes it will be no shock to see the colt defeat the much-hyped Manhattan Rain at Rosehill on Saturday.The...
Trainer Bryan Guy is trying to tread a diplomatic path at home ahead of the clash of stablemates Masai Pride and Pentacity at Doomben.Magic Millions Cup winner Masai Pride is part-owned by Guy's wi...
Golden Slipper hopeful Horizons has everyone at Tulloch Lodge excited about her autumn prospects after she held her own in a star-studded barrier trial at Randwick.The Choisir filly will have her n...
Psychologists call it 'patterns of behaviour' and, of course, they're talking about human beings and the way that 99 per cent of us adopt a rational lifestyle with predictable behaviour. But what...
The fitness of a racehorse, as we all know, is of paramount importance when it comes to determining how it might run in a given race. Fit horses win races, goes the old saying. When I lived in Am...
0ne thing that is constant in the world of punting is that we need to explore new angles to either enhance our selection process or improve our ability to eliminate losers. An angle that has been ...
Fitness plays such an important role in horse racing, and so few punters really know much about how to assess it, that we assigned Statsman to set out in detail his own expert views on this import...
Fitness - as far as off-course punters are concerned is very much a mystery. TAB punters haven't a clue as to whether a horse is fit or otherwise as it lopes off to the starting gates. We may see...
Few horses manage to win immediately after returning from a spell-a rest from racing of two months or more. Some manage to win after a let-up, but the odds are pretty much against any horse coming...
There are, I believe, six 'basics' in horse-racing form assessment. After experimenting with real money for the past three years I have formulated the following list: A fit horse One of the ...
There were a number of horses racing second-up from spells at Eagle Farm on December 5. All lost. At Sandown that day, there were 11 horses in that category. All lost. At Rosehill, there were six....
We hear a lot about the 'second-up syndrome'. Those who believe in it make the sweeping generalisation that horses racing second-up from a spell never win. They avoid them like the plague. But wh...
In his fine book The Key Factor Is Fitness, Queensland racing analyst Barry Blakemore provides some classic examples of how the power of the form book can guide you to winners. The Chester Manifo...