Amical 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...

Those cobbled-together new whip laws are really causing a ruckus...They'll severely impact on the spring carnival, according to Victorian Jockeys' Association director Ross Inglis. He's only reflec...

Trainer Ross McDonald is likely to have further decisions to make on the immediate spring future of fallen champion Weekend Hussler.Beaten out of a place in the Turnbull Stakes on Saturday, Weekend...

Glen Boss reckons trouble-plagued import Changingoftheguard is at his best for the Melbourne Cup. After a long workout on 'Guard' at Sandown, Boss declared his Melbourne Cup tilt was on target. He...

Who's in trouble? Whobe, that's who...Mark Kavanagh admits he's worried about the injuries sustained by his stable star Whobegotyou in last Sat's Stradbroke. Whobe was badly cut when unplaced in th...

Shuffle, shuffle, toil and trouble...Three Racing Victoria stewards have been made redundant although they can still apply for newly created jobs. The Sunday Herald-Sun names the trio as Stephen Co...

When jockey Andrew Bloomfield felt a sickening thud to his head leaving the barriers at Berrigan on March 20, immediately he knew he was in trouble.His mount Up To Scale stumbled from the stalls an...