Barry's Boyo 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...

Promising filly Misty Blue faces her acid test at Flemington on Saturday but trainer Greg Eurell is confident the three-year-old has the ability to handle her first stakes attempt.Misty Blue will c...

Promising filly Misty Blue faces her acid test at Flemington on Saturday but trainer Greg Eurell is confident the three-year-old has the ability to handle her first stakes attempt.Misty Blue will c...

Exciting filly Great Dame faces a showdown with VRC Oaks winner Mosheen in what will be a campaign-defining run in The Vanity at Flemington.Trainer Greg Eurell said Great Dame was worthy of a crack...

Ron Quinton is looking to Ofcourseican to snare the first running of the Golden Pendant at Rosehill on a race day that has been successful for the trainer in the past.Quinton is confident Ofcoursei...

It's a challenge...Unbeaten Black Caviar must reset the history books if she's to win the $1m Grp 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Mar 12. The mighty mare has been handicapped on 58kgs...

Gary Portelli wants to see Somepin Anypin pass his biggest test in Thursday's Hawkesbury Gold Cup before he decides on any future targets for the promising gelding.Somepin Anypin is the $1.65 favou...