Another Hero 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...

THE Freedman brothers are leaving their magnificent training complex on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, reports the Daily Telegraph.It says: Anthony Freedman, the sole occupant these days of the f...

Imported galloper Sound Of Nature, one of six tried horses bought in England by Lee Freedman late last year, has his first Australian start at Sandown on Sunday.The Chester House six-year-old is th...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is unsure where Intertidal ranks among this season's two-year-olds but knows he will be much wiser after Saturday's Silver Slipper.The winner of two of his three starts, Interti...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is unsure where Intertidal ranks among this season's two-year-olds but knows he will be much wiser after Saturday's Silver Slipper.The winner of two of his three starts, Interti...

Anthony Freedman’s latest German import, Waldpark, is likely to make his Australian debut in the $300,000 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley. Freedman has told racingvictoria.net.au the fo...

Gai Waterhouse has gone back to basics in a move that has delivered the desired results so far this season.The champion trainer has already prepared 11 individual two-year-old winners and one of th...