Aftermath 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...

Who's in trouble? Whobe, that's who...Mark Kavanagh admits he's worried about the injuries sustained by his stable star Whobegotyou in last Sat's Stradbroke. Whobe was badly cut when unplaced in th...

It doesn’t matter how good a punter you are, there will be many times when you will make mistakes. Bad mistakes. Stupid mistakes. The main thing is to learn from them. View the aftermath of your ...

Darren Beadman, struggling to recover from a bad injury, has been given the all-clear to fly and hopes to return from Hong Kong to Australia to continue his rehabilitation from the serious head inj...

Jockey Michelle Payne has been left with four fractured vertebrae and broken ribs in the aftermath of a fall at Sunday's Donald race meeting.Payne was taken to the local hospital after the fall whi...

The aftermath of Sydney's recent wet weather played havoc with barrier trials at Randwick on Monday when riders questioned the safety of the steeplegrass.A horse ridden by Christian Reith stumbled ...

In the racing game, it is virtually accepted as fact that jockeys are the worst judges. I did find the comments of Glen Boss in the aftermath of Smart Missile's impressive Run to the Rose win, howe...