Art Of Light 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...

MOONEE Valley Racing Club has received a green light to proceed with its redevelopment of its racecourse, reports Racing Network. The Advisory Committee, appointed by the State Minister for Plann...

The Wong family won't know which way to look at the finish of the Victoria Racing Club Trophy (2,200m) at Happy Valley tonight as father and son could be fighting out the finish but top weight  En...

David Hayes is keen to become the next Australian trainer to take centre stage at Royal Ascot with Nicconi and Irish Lights on trial for a trip to England in the Lightning Stakes.Hayes, who trying ...

David Hayes is keen to become the next Australian trainer to take centre stage at Royal Ascot with Nicconi and Irish Lights on trial for a trip to England in the Lightning Stakes.Hayes, who trying ...

There were 47 race meetings held across Australia last week with 3,198 horses competing in 340 races for a total prize money purse of $19,011,500 .

Whether you are betting a simple staking plan, or an intricate one demanding lots of input and thought, you have to keep one point in mind: Strength of will! Punters battle with this part of thei...