Bend It Like Becks 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...

David Hayes  doesn’t need to be represented in the  W.S. Cox Plate  to get excited about the biggest race run at Moonee Valley each year, reports racing.com. It helps when he does, like this yea...

In-form mare Sheila's Star has been nominated for a stakes race in Adelaide this weekend as a precaution against missing a start in the Listed Anniversary Vase on her home track at Caulfield.Traine...

Group One winner Tears I Cry has had his workload ramped up in order to revive his fortunes on the anniversary of his last win at Flemington.Warrnambool trainer Anne McGrath, who also part-owns the...

LANDING his first Group 1 win in three years with Fibrillation may be the main priority for Tim Martin over the weekend but the Rosehill trainer still has a handy team entered for his home track to...

Four years after his biggest success in the VRC St Leger, Accumulate continues his latest comeback after a series of setbacks in Saturday's RSL Plate at Flemington.The Zabeel seven-year-old steps u...

Peter Moody seems very keen on having a crack at the Cox Plate with Typhoon Tracy. No wonder. She was absolutely dominant winning the Queen of the Turf 1500m at Rosehill. Moody plans her next start...