Another Nephew 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...

Renowned Sydney race broadcaster Des Hoysted died in a Sydney nursing home on Thursday night aged 86.Hoysted began his career on Boxing Day 1948 calling races at Wodonga and a few years later came ...

Criterion  has been nominated for arguably the world’s most prestigious race, the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (2400m) in France in October. Trainer  David Hayes , who prepares the four-yea...

Winter is traditionally a quiet time for the David Hayes stable and it will be no different at Moonee Valley on Saturday.The stable will saddle up just the one runner, Debt Demolition in the Echuca...

First off, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steven McAllister, and I am the nephew of the late George Tafe. Many of you would have read George's articles in the past, and hopefully fou...

Trainer James Lyons has re-evaluated Drenalin's immediate future but it could still take another direction if the four-year-old wins the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.Drenalin, a Brad Stewa...

Many articles have been written about Pittsburgh Phil, the most famous of all punters. If a certain doctor was alive today he could testify, much to his own chagrin, to Phil's betting astuteness. ...