Acanthus 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...

Not the stewards, thanks...The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board and NOT Racing Victoria stewards will deal with the charges brought against Danny Nikolic. The rider aksed for the switch. Raci...

The Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board has ruled that fresh charges brought against disqualified jockey Danny Nikolic are valid.  

Damien Oliver has won the first of two VRC autumn carnival-defining appeals, reports Racing Netrwork. Oliver was successful on Monday in having a 12-meeting suspension imposed by Racing Victoria ...

The Racing Appeals & Disciplinary (RAD) Board has disqualified jockey Danny Nikolic for a concurrent term of two years with effect from 4 September 2012.The independent three-man panel of Brian For...

Chad Schofield can continue his association with classy filly  Go Indy Go  when she resumes in the Cap D’Antibes Stakes at Flemington on September 13 thanks to a variation by the Racing Appeals Bo...

DISQUALIFIED jockey Danny Nikolic has lodged an appeal with the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal against two decisions made by the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board.