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 courses that ask completely different questions of a galloper — sound reasoning, work done, and it costs money anyway. In May 1986 Statsman went through the Victorian tracks one at a time, from Geelong down to Terang, and set down what each course does to a horse and which barriers his figures favoured.

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What you'll learn:

  • The country courses Statsman rated best — Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Warrnambool — and the one thing they have in common: they all favour the horse that finishes on well
  • Where a wide gate really costs, start by start: outside 8 at Geelong's 1100m, barrier 12 and out at Ballarat, outside 10 at Bendigo's 1200m start
  • The turning tracks that hand the race to the front-runner, against the long straights — Swan Hill's 461m, Tatura's 445m — where a horse can be well back on the turn and still win
  • Why Bendigo's own figures point both ways in consecutive sentences, and why we left that contradiction standing instead of tidying it

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