Bit Of A Step 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...

A new generation of two-year-olds will step out at Randwick on Saturday with the running of the time-honoured Breeders' Plate and Gimcrack Stakes.The first juvenile races of the season in Sydney, t...

A new generation of two-year-olds will step out at Randwick on Saturday with the running of the time-honoured Breeders' Plate and Gimcrack Stakes.The first juvenile races of the season in Sydney, t...

Trainer Bryan Guy will use Saturday's Doomben meeting as a springboard towards the longer carnival races for Shuffle The Cash.The gelding will step out in the Mark Timms, The Good Guys Ipswich Open...

Trainer Peter Snowden says Victoria Derby favourite Retrieve will take improvement out of the Norman Robinson Stakes at Caulfield.Snowden said he was mindful of timing the preparation of the Rahy c...

Greg Eurell believes talented four-year-old Mic Mac has what is required to measure up in what will be his first weight-for-age test in Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.The four-year-old, by S...

Guelph's little brother Ghibellines commenced his autumn carnival with a barrier trial win at Rosehill Gardens on Tuesday morning. Trainer Peter Snowden indicated the Shamardal colt would be give...