Balance Of Power 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...

Spring stars Shocking, Viewed and So You Think are among 200 entries for this year's Doncaster Mile along with the past two winners, Vision And Power and Triple Honour.Cox Plate winner So You Think...

Russell Clarke is one of Britain's most successful professional punters. He writes for the popular magazine Odds On and runs his own Internet site. In this special article, he gives his views on b...

New Zealand warhorse Sir Slick was a shock late entry for Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000 but the fate of the meeting still hangs in the balance as heavy rain continues.As expected a number of ...

New Zealand warhorse Sir Slick was a shock late entry for Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000 but the fate of the meeting still hangs in the balance as heavy rain continues.As expected a number of ...

THE immediate future of Perth Cup-winning trainer Shane Edwards hangs in the balance after he pleaded guilty on Friday to two charges laid by West Australian stewards following their investigations...

Punters enjoyed a Royal Ascot to remember at the expense of the bookmakers who were left cursing the worst results in living memory.The five-day jamboree resulted in the layers handing bundles of c...