Bending Away 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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNTHE JUNGLE BOY4g : S Clotworthy : Byerley5 starts : 2 winsWin distance range : 1400m - 2000mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyThis bloke may have only beaten a weak R70 line-u...

Greg McFarlane is hoping to use Jungle Rocket's summer campaign as a springboard to a Group One Sydney Cup preparation next autumn.The trainer says Jungle Rocket is a "true stayer" and warned a muc...

A pay television subscription could prove the best investment ever by Victorian trainer Peter White if outsider Jungle Ruler causes an upset in Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000.White, 63, who tr...

A pay television subscription could prove the best investment ever by Victorian trainer Peter White if outsider Jungle Ruler causes an upset in Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000.White, 63, who tr...

Youthful King ($7.50 to $6) has received early support with TAB Fixed Odds to win Tuesday’s Jungle Juice Cup (1350m) at Cessnock.   The eight-year-old is expected to fire at the track where...

Durable mare Hoorang's Melbourne Cup campaign has received a boost with her win over a handy field at Hastings.Her trainer, Wanganui vet Ian Shaw, was inquiring into bookings to Melbourne on Sunday...