Ahrkaye 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...

Melbourne trainer Ross McDonald was the happiest man at Rosehill on Saturday for a couple of reasons but mostly because the day began with Weekend Hussler turning in a scorching gallop at home at C...

Impeccably-bred stablemates Arctic and Onarohl will be striving to live up to their rich pedigrees and give trainer Brian Smith a double at Eagle Farm.Arctic, a Ric McMahon mount, will make his deb...

Winning a Scone Cup would confirm the natural talent of Lightinthenite but it is unlikely to change trainer John O'Shea's plans for the promising galloper.Lightinthenite has shown in nine starts he...

The transition from the playgrounds of the rich and famous to the daily rigours of training racehorses has been a smooth one for New Zealander John Bary.He travelled the world as a professional pol...

SUNSHINE COAST Acceptances on Saturday 27th June, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: +2m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.15 HOT 91 CLASS 3 PLA...

Steve Ahern was one of Britain’s greatest punters. He won a massive fortune and rose from being a penniless schoolboy to living a life of luxury in a mansion on the island of Majorca. This extract...