Audit 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...

Racing Victoria stewards have opened separate inquiries into the alleged betting activities of three jockeys. Stewards began the probes after a routine audit of wagering agencies' betting accounts....

This should be interesting...The Australian reports that Australia's biggest gambler, a reclusive maths wiz who bets more than $1 billion each year, is being examined by the Australian Taxation Off...

A FLOCK of around 2000 cockatoos that decided to make a stop at Moonee Valley racecourse this week have munched their way through power cables, forcing tomorrow night's meeting to be switched to tw...

EVERY Melbourne Cup runner will have a security guard in the 24-hours leading into the Cup, reports Racing Network.  Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey says the security policy worked we...

The greatest recognition of the New Zealand thoroughbred in 2010 probably came from an Irish chequebook.Coolmore Stud in November reportedly parted with $30 million for a controlling share in champ...

A fourth horse is confirmed to have died from the Hendra virus in NSW.The horse died suddenly in the paddock of a property near Lismore on the NSW north coast on Thursday.Before the horse was burie...