Bandit 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...

Hobart Cup winner Growl is likely to remain in Tassie for the Launceston Cup on Feb 24. Growl ($12.20) shot clear as the field straightened for the run home and won by 4.25 lengths from the Tony Va...

Mid-afternoon on Saturday...and there was a quick reaction to Shocking's runaway win in the Lexus 2500m. The 4YO was a firmer into $9.00 for the Melbourne Cup. Viewed and Alcopop continued to share...

Caulfield Cup winner Viewed has been penalised 1kg for the Melbourne Cup. He will now carry 58kgs as he attempts to win the Melbourne Cup for the second year in a row. The 6YO joins the 2007 winner...

Singapore International Cup winner  Dan Excel  could be heading to Melbourne for the Group 1 $3 million Sportingbet Cox Plate. Sunday night's runaway winner with Tommy Berry on-board is owned b...

THE 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Efficient, who has been cruelly thwarted in four other attempts at winning Australia's most important race, will not be making a fifth bid for success this spring, rep...

Darren Weir and Craig Williams combined for the second successive year when Gotta Keep Cool scored a game win in the $400,000 Hobart Cup.The Ballarat trainer and Melbourne's three-time premier jock...