Another Surprise 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...

LIKE A football coach, Mark Kavanagh rarely likes to look too far ahead. But tomorrow, as his reigning Melbourne Cup champion Shocking tackles the group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, Kavanagh wi...

No surprise...Topweight Scenic Shot is OUT of the Perth Cup and will be spelled and then prepared for another Queensland campaign. Trainer Dan Morton withdrew SS from the feature on Monday. He rec...

Another dose of the mighty Americain this time around? Could be. Latest reports say the French stayer, owned by Aussies, may be a surprise runner in the Zipping Classic at Sandown on Saturday week....

Keepin' The Dream, invariably unfashionable with punters, has the statistics on board to say he will revel in his role as a feature race underdog at Hawkesbury.That's the opinion of one of his bigg...

Golden Slipper winning jockey Tommy Berry will be a surprise addition

Stratofortress, who made a name for himself as a stayer with his Newcastle Cup win at his most recent start, is tipped to match it with the sprinters when he resumes on Saturday."He didn't have too...