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The Christmas Stakes at Caulfield will be one the last chances for consistent galloper Itsamonty to win a feature race.Trainer Dean Lawson admitted time was running out for the seven-year-old who h...
Maligned galloper Mind Your Head has rewarded the patience of his connections and delivered on a six month plan to give trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The six-ye...
Trainer Liam Birchley is eyeing his first international runner after flashy juvenile Sarge in Charge trounced his rivals at Eagle Farm to earn a trip to New Zealand.Birchley confirmed after Friday'...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will stick with Eclipse Stakes winner Eskimo Dan in a bid to win his first Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Oliver had his first ride on Eskimo Dan last start when ...
Terry O'Sullivan says the extra distance of this season's Bagot Handicap, run over 2800 metres for the first time, could be the key for Ladies In Luck posting her first feature race win.Ladies In L...
Larry Cassidy will have one of his last feature rides as a Sydney-based jockey when he partners Sir Sensible in the Listed Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick on New Year's Day.The New Zealand-born Ca...
International sprint champion Takeover Target will not run in the Group One Telegraph Handicap in New Zealand.Trainer Joe Janiak told the Wellington Racing Club (WRC) on Friday the globe-trotting n...
Luke Oliver's faith in consistent stayer Good Red was rewarded when the gelding delivered on a seven-month plan to give the trainer the biggest win of his career at Flemington.Oliver pulled the ace...
Tye Angland repaid the faith Black Piranha's connections bestowed in him with a brilliant ride to win the $100,000 Goldmarket Handicap but they are already chasing a replacement for next week's Mag...
A horse who nearly severed his hind legs as a juvenile has emerged as an Australian Guineas prospect for Weekend Hussler's trainer Ross McDonald.Stravinsky gelding Swift Bay still bears the scars o...
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...