Alpha One 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...

Godolphin's Kentucky Derby hope Alpha has made a winning start to his campaign with victory in the Count Fleet, a traditional starting point for Triple Crown contenders at the Aqueduct.It was the f...

Consistent five-year-old Noble Alpha has done little wrong in some good company and the Michael Chang Chun-wai-trained gelding gets the set-up he needs to take out the Hong Kong Macau Trophy (1,400...

Criterion's big move in Melbourne Cup betting is one of the major changes to the TAB’s Future Race markets following the two meetings from Moonee Valley:   Victoria Derby   Tarzino    ...

Today’s release of the Early Quaddie proved to be very fruitful for TAB customers.  Launching on this afternoon’s Flemington and Warwick Farm programs, there was certainly plenty of interest wit...

MONGOLIAN Khan’s chances of becoming the 12 th  horse to win the Caulfield Cup – Melbourne Cup double have been boosted today following only a 1kg penalty. The stayer firmed from $7.00 into $6....

Trainer Mark Webb is banking on the soft winter tracks empowering talented mare Johannapine, who is set to bounce back from a Group One failure in the Oakleigh Plate.The Johannesburg four-year-old'...