Band Of Brothers 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...

William Hill Cox Plate invitee  Highland Reel  benefitted from a  Ryan Moore  masterclass to make all and provide trainer  Aidan O’Brien  with a fourth success in King George VI And Queen Elizabet...

  TAB has reopened its Cox Plate market following the announcement of the barrier draw this morning for Australasia’s weight-for-age championship.   Boom import Highland Reel and Kermadec remai...

French jockey Eric Legrix has ended his riding career on a winning note with victory at Singapore's Kranji track on Sunday.Legrix, 44, will return to his homeland to join Pascal Bary as an assistan...

Champion sprinter Black Caviar has been retired

MONGOLIAN Khan’s chances of becoming the 12 th  horse to win the Caulfield Cup – Melbourne Cup double have been boosted today following only a 1kg penalty. The stayer firmed from $7.00 into $6....

Irish trainer  Aidan O’Brien  added another chapter to his already remarkable career when he trained the first three across the line in Europe’s premier race, the Group 1 Arc de Triomphe at Chanti...