Always Winner 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...

EARLY TO BED..."Early" can be clever. If YOU'RE smart!For what it's worth, I always maintain a separate bank for the big prepost racing.I don't, or I try not to, bet in the days coming up to a race...

Veteran trainer Clarry Conners produced a potential spring stakes-winner in  This Is Australia  on debut at Canterbury on Wednesday. Owned by John Singleton and ridden by old master Jim Cassidy, ...

Big Time BettingWhen I was doing something entirely different, and I was oh so many years younger, I worked with a chap whose wife always backed the winner of the Melbourne Cup.She had to. She alwa...

áEconomy and Another Day."There's always another day". Nowhere is this more true than in our pursuit of the racing dollar.Tomorrow, June 6, at least two of the major meetings will be held on bottom...

It might have taken Always Something three years to get himself back in the winner's circle, but he can strike while the iron is hot with a light weight and a good draw in the Rotary Centenary Chal...

Heading back for the winter carnival in Qld...The Yves Seguin-trained Arcenciel proved a class above her rivals when taking out the Bay Of Plenty Cup (2100m) at Tauranga on Saturday and now she's s...