Big Weekend 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...

Big weekend looms for popular trainer Peter Snowden...He's got a couple of runners at the Ipswich meeting and back in Sydney he'll line up 11 runners in 6 of the eight races at Rosehill. His Qld pa...

Jockey Michael Rodd has likened Maldivian to AFL premiers Hawthorn as he prepares for an upset win over arch-rival Weekend Hussler in Saturday's Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.Rodd is taking some he...

The Peter Moody Show will be all glitter and lights this weekend...The champ trainer has a spread of top chances, led, of course, by Black Caviar in the William Reid 1200m at Moonee Valley on Frida...

LEADING jockey Kerrin McEvoy has signed up Victorian legal heavyweight Cliff Panham in a bid to have a one-month riding ban lifted, but first he has a big weekend of riding on which to concentrate,...

Weekend Hussler has come through his leisurely exhibition workout between races at Caulfield with minor foot issues but trainer Ross McDonald says there's no cause for concern.Race jockey Brad Rawi...

Weekend Hussler has come through his leisurely exhibition workout between races at Caulfield with minor foot issues but trainer Ross McDonald says there's no cause for concern.Race jockey Brad Rawi...