Amazing Fluke 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...

FROM European tour operator to leading Brisbane trainer. It has been some turnaround for Robert Heathcote. From driving coaches to conditioning thoroughbreds, such as today's Ipswich Cup contender ...

Glen Boss is convinced that Smart Missile is a world beater. Had he not been a late scratching in the Golden Slipper he'd have beaten Sepoy in the 2YO classis, according to Bossy, who just had to s...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...

Selecting winners is one thing-backing them correctly is another. Money management, that's what it's all about. Few punters ever really come to grips with how best to invest their cash on the h...

Selecting winners is one thing-backing them correctly is another. Money management, that's what it's all about. Few punters ever really come to grips with how best to invest their cash on the h...

Selecting winners is one thing-backing them correctly is another. Money management, that's what it's all about. Few punters ever really come to grips with how best to invest their cash on the h...