Be Water 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...

Gai Waterhouse prefers the Coolmore Stud Stakes at the end of the Melbourne spring carnival over the Golden Rose as a Group 1 target for Bull Point. The talented two-year-old lived up to his shor...

Trainer Ricky Maund would love all his horses to be as talented and as consistent as General Truce who is chasing another Flemington stakes win.The three-year-old has not only competed against the ...

  NOT content with a Melbourne and Caulfield Cup

Ghibellines , the first colt home in the Golden Slipper Stakes earlier this year, is on his way to Melbourne. Trainer John O’Shea today told Racing Network the half-brother to last season’s ch...

It's over for now...Queensland star Chakvetadze has a leg injury and is out of the winter carnival. The filly, trained by Mick Nolan at Toowoomba, is unbeaten after six starts. Following her last s...

Trainer Gary Portelli will make a memorable start to the new year when he saddles up his first international runner.The Warwick Farm horseman will start the speedy Gold Trail in the Group One Railw...