Baldacci 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...

HE $1.82 million Hong Kong Sprint, which had been won by an Australian-bred horse every year since it was first run in 2000, had a change of flavour yesterday with the South African-bred-and-traine...

Safari bound...Michelle Payne may be the last of a famed riding clan, but don't expect this petite young jockey to be hanging around. The 24-year-old, who has been riding for nine years, including ...

Trackwork gallops on Tuesday will determine the make-up of Anthony Cummings' team for the Hawkesbury Guineas meeting.The Randwick trainer has three runners - Fontelina, Time To Plunder and Upbeat -...

Doncaster Handicap winner Sacred Choice was among 121 entries taken on Monday for Randwick's other major 1600m feature, the Epsom Handicap.There were 118 nominations for the Metropolitan Handicap (...

The Queenslander raiders look set to play a strong hand in the Listed Premier's Cup at Rosehill on Saturday with two of the top three horses in betting.Trainer Alan Bailey will start favourite Brav...

A friendship formed with the view of plundering the spring riches of the Melbourne carnival is set to pay the ultimate reward for owner Geoff Evans and trainer Danny O'Brien at Flemington tomorrow,...