Bad Forest 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...

Eight-year-old Dao Dao could be the blow-out horse for punters when he tries to defy convention to score a milestone victory in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.Despite his advancing years...

Sons of the late Red Ransom have been getting a lot of airplay in Australia at present as a significant group of them retire to stud this spring, so many breeders will be interested to see that Sno...

Gordon Pine, the noted US handicapper, wrote recently that if, as a punter, you are not “handicapping yourself” then you are actually handicapping yourself! What he meant, of course, was that if ...