A Little Bit Irish Horse

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Lee Freedman's arrangement with stable rider Dwayne Dunn has been varied to provide more flexibility for both parties.Freedman said Dunn was still the number one stable jockey but he had the opport...

Champion Irish trainer Dermot Weld reflected fondly on his grand galloper Vintage Crop, the 1993 Melbourne Cup winner, who died on Monday at the age of 27. As the first internationally-trained...

Sea The Stars became the first horse since Nashwan in 1989 to achieve the English 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby double here on Saturday.The Irish raider - giving trainer John Oxx his second Derby wi...

Sea The Stars became the first horse since Nashwan in 1989 to achieve the English 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby double here on Saturday.The Irish raider - giving trainer John Oxx his second Derby wi...

Sea The Stars became the first horse since Nashwan in 1989 to achieve the English 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby double here on Saturday.The Irish raider - giving trainer John Oxx his second Derby wi...

Irish apprentice Oisin Murphy is enjoying his time in Australia so much that he has extended his stay with Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien, reports Racing Victoria. Arriving in Australia in Nov...