Alluvial 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...

Ron Quinton is keen to expand his small team and is hoping one of his stable's best marketing tools, Angel's Breath, sparks interest from prospective owners by continuing her winning run at Randwic...

from RACING POST HKOwners' Glory shapes as a true stayer whose opportunities might appear infrequently, but the Danny Shum Chap-shing-trained four-year-old gets an ideal chance at a trophy in the I...

Promising four-year-old Chasm faces his biggest test in Saturday's Group Three Race-Tech Stakes at Sandown and if he wins his spring may not be over yet.Caulfield trainer Heath Conners rates Chasm ...

As reigning champion trainer John Size begins his customary mid-season acceleration through to the lead in the championship, the standout difference to his approach has been a greater patronisation...

Guy Walter has been confirmed as the new trainer for European import Basaltico who will add his presence to the major races in Sydney this autumn.The six-year-old was brought to Australia by Luca C...

Guy Walter has been confirmed as the new trainer for European import Basaltico who will add his presence to the major races in Sydney this autumn.The six-year-old was brought to Australia by Luca C...