Autumn Glow 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...

If Glowlamp can win Saturday's Matriarch Stakes at Flemington there will be no happier man than Clarry Conners, but don't expect to see him jumping for joy.Conners has spent Melbourne Cup week in a...

A decision on whether Combat Kitty has her first test at 1600 metres in the Sandown Guineas will be made after trainer Matt Smith supervises her work on Tuesday.The filly has also been entered for ...

Group One winning New Zealand mare Boundless has staved off retirement with victory in the Group Two Counties Cup.Her win in Saturday's 2100m Pukekohe feature capped a great day for trainer Stephen...

Darren Weir says he will most likely have two runners, Disco Summit and Sublimity, in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas but fears Kidnapped will be a major stumbling block for both of his three-...

Darren Weir says he will most likely have two runners, Disco Summit and Sublimity, in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas but fears Kidnapped will be a major stumbling block for both of his three-...