Blood Diamond 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 FRANKLYN in AucklandBLOOD DIAMOND5g : O Duffy : Hawera12 starts : 3 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 2000m - 2100mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : SlowThis bloke isn't from a well...

Caulfield trainer Clinton McDonald says Envious is the fresh horse on the scene going into Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes on his home track and expects the colt to acquit himself well.En...

Friday afternoon price moves from TAB for Randwick on Saturday:

Early price movers from TAB for Randwick on Saturday

Trainer Tony Noonan has gone back to basics with injury-plagued blue-blood Dubai's Choice and stripped him of most of his race day gear for his stable debut at Sandown.Blinkers, race plates and a t...

Trainer Tony Noonan has gone back to basics with injury-plagued blue-blood Dubai's Choice and stripped him of most of his race day gear for his stable debut at Sandown.Blinkers, race plates and a t...