All Too Lucky 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...

With three Group Ones already to his name, Lucky Nine is the most highly achieved sprinter currently in action and the Caspar Fownes-trained galloper has finally drawn the outside when it can help ...

Jim Cassidy believes Lucky Lago has the potential to be a spring carnival contender

Speed machine Lucky Secret atoned for his last-start defeat and further enhanced his Moonee Valley record with a decisive victory in the Group Two Schweppes Stakes.But trainer Tony Vasil would not ...

Lucky Secret may make a cameo appearance in Tasmania in preference to contesting Melbourne's elite sprints at the end of the month.Trainer Tony Vasil said the weight-for-age Listed Premium Stakes (...

Prolific winner Lucky Secret will make a hit-and-run visit to Perth for Saturday's Group Two Winterbottom Stakes.The brilliant sprinter is booked to fly out of Melbourne on Friday afternoon after t...

Toowoomba trainer Eric Ropiha continued his love affair with the Sunshine Coast when Lucky Luna snuck into the Glasshouse Handicap and scored a narrow win.The Caloundra track has been a happy hunti...