Big Trouble 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...

Danny Nikolic is discovering that when you strike big trouble in racing - especially reputation trouble - many people you consider your 'mates' suddenly vanish. That's why Danny's been finding it t...

As the curtain came down on the Sydney Autumn Carnival with the running of four Group 1 races, namely the Sydney Cup, Champagne Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the All Aged Stakes, it was appar...

As the curtain came down on the Sydney Autumn Carnival with the running of four Group 1 races, namely the Sydney Cup, Champagne Stakes, Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the All Aged Stakes, it was appar...

Big trouble...Takeover Target underwent surgery after finishing unplaced in the Darley July Cup, according to British media reports. UK website Racingpost.com is reporting Takeover Target, who fini...

Shuffle, shuffle, toil and trouble...Three Racing Victoria stewards have been made redundant although they can still apply for newly created jobs. The Sunday Herald-Sun names the trio as Stephen Co...

Men punters talk about betting they will invariably end up mentioning the 'big double' they landed during their punting lifetimes. Everyone has one or two of them - the big windfall return, or ret...