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Promising three-year-old Arjuna will go into his spring grand final a fresh horse in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas.Trainer John Collins said he was always going to give the Giant's Causeway ...
Talented gelding Caymans mended his ways to win today's Group Two Sandown Guineas and give himself a chance at the cream of the three-year-old autumn races in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden listed th...
Douro Valley could be Australia's sole representative at the rich international meeting in Hong Kong.Although disappointed the gelding was beaten by Zipping in Saturday's Sandown Classic, trainer D...
Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...
The moment of truth will soon arrive for up-and-coming star Burdekin Blues who is back in work ahead of his tilt at Group One glory in Melbourne in the autumn.Burdekin Blues has been in work with t...
Jockey Stathi Katsidis is expected to be sidelined for up to three months after breaking his leg in a track mishap.Katsidis is due to be released from Redlands Hospital on Brisbane's bayside on Thu...
Heavy rain has forced Wednesday's Doomben race meeting to be abandoned.Queensland Racing Limited chief steward Reid Sanders had no hesitation calling off the meeting after Doomben was drenched foll...
Rookie trainer Eden Petrie is hoping more than two decades studying the methods of Ron Quinton and John Wallace will pay dividends and give him his first metropolitan win with talented sprinter Alb...
Melbourne Cup winner Viewed is expected to launch his autumn carnival campaign in a race that has twice confirmed the genius of trainer Bart Cummings.As Viewed rests in a paddock near Bowral in the...
A luckless Emirates Stakes result has convinced trainer Anthony Cummings to keep Dealer Principal in training to try to snap a spring losing streak.Dealer Principal hasn't been able to win in five ...
When we look at statistics in horseracing, we are really looking at what the 'past' has created - a set of figures based on many years' racing, which are so levelled out as to be considered a real...
Any punter taking an in-depth look at the form for a race will usually be taking into account how long it has been since a horse had its last start. It's generally accepted that the longer the pe...
Many punters rely to a great extent on the 'vital statistics' of racing to guide them into their choice of horse for any particular race. In other words, they are swayed by history into trying to ...
Statistics can be meaningful helpmates when looking at racing. They also can lead you into a minefield of miscalculations! The fact is, statistics can be twisted around to suit any case that's bei...
Roman Koz provided us with a fascinating look at stats about favourites on pages 18-19 in the November PPM. It really is a good way to start thinking about a structured manner of attacking your be...
Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...
The ode that accompanies this article may be sung to Beethoven's Choral Symphony or the lesser - known Elegy in F Minor by Poulenc, Though a requiem would be more appropriate, a requiem to the enj...
In this article I am going to continue the analysis of last-start winners that formed the basis of last month's article. In particular we will look at last-start winners strike rates for coming se...
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...
Statistics can play a vital role in the way we assess races. But how can you use statistics to help your betting and your selection process? In this article, Martin Dowling examines the work of De...