A Mandarin 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...

Amityship has gone from strength to strength this season, scoring most impressively last time out over this course and distance and looks an outstanding banker in the middle leg of tomorrow's Tripl...

John Size has taken six of the nine trainers' championships he has contested and will again hold the whip hand this season with his dominance of the middle order, reports the Racing Post in Hong Ko...

Target betting versus level stakes betting? How do you think each betting approach would fare against the other? I posed the question to a pal of mine and he reckoned level stakes would win out mo...

Target betting versus level stakes betting? How do you think each betting approach would fare against the other? I posed the question to a pal of mine and he reckoned level stakes would win out mo...

Target betting versus level stakes betting? How do you think each betting approach would fare against the other? I posed the question to a pal of mine and he reckoned level stakes would win out mo...

In just about every sport we can name, the word "inspiration" is mentioned time after time. Just check any newspaper's sports coverage and you're likely to find some comments about players being i...