Blenham 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...

Golden Slipper winner Sepoy returns to racing in Sat's Vain Stakes (1100m, Listed) at Caulfield. It marks the start of a huge Darley assault on the spring. The stable will embark on its 'biggest ev...

Kerrin McEvoy will head to Melbourne on Tuesday to put star colt Sepoy through his paces in his final major hitout before he resumes in Saturday's Vain Stakes at Caulfield.Sydney-based McEvoy ventu...

TRAINER Peter Moody expects his unbeaten colt Master Harry to be hard to beat when he resumes in today's Vain Stakes at Caulfield but he warned the colt was no certainty to chase a Caulfield Guinea...

Promising filly Vain Attraction will have an important test down the straight at Flemington ahead of a planned assault at the track in next month's Listed Creswick Stakes.The Bel Esprit three-year-...

For years and years the catch cry of form students has been weights, weights and nothing but weights however in recent times there has been a movement in the punting world that believe this worth c...

Classy three-year-old Toorak Toff has taken Rick Hore-Lacy's breath away with a barnstorming win in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.Hore-Lacy jokingly asked for an oxygen mask as he tried to ta...