Backlit Beauty 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...

Oceanographer has been the biggest firmer to notch a win for the foreign raiders in  Tuesday’s  Melbourne Cup at Flemington.   Starting the day at $21, his strong win in the Lexus saw TAB slas...

HE JUST WAS, THAT'S ALL!So who was the best racehorse in modern times?Southern hemisphere of course, they rarely travelled until recently."Black Caviar" I hear the bleat.She's marvellous. I agree. ...

AND THAT'S HOW IT IS, BOYO.A wonderful English teacher and Welshman named Tom Davies, whom I knew in my youth, would end up every one of wise pronouncements with that telling sentence. "And that's ...

By the time the last race was run and won Zac Purton already had his feet up enjoying a well-deserved beer and a barbecue, but earlier he had struck with a lightning quick four-timer that snapped...

A slow getaway probably cost Aussie sprinter Star Witness a win in the King's Stand Stakes 1000m at Royal Ascot overnight. Star Witness 6/1 settled down last and drove through on the rails to finis...

In the run-up to the HK$14 million Champions Mile, the questions were as much about whether Able Friend was still at his best as they were about whether Luger was good enough to beat him and ...