Blue Catchu 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...

Michael Clout's decision to sell his investment banking business to take up training racehorses full time seemed a risky one a few months ago but he was all smiles after Mondial Dame's upset win at...

Long-serving administrator Alan Brown will lead a new-look Racing NSW board.Mr Brown was elected unanimously as chairperson when the five-member board met on official business for the first time on...

There are exciting times ahead for Kris Lees with outstanding filly Samantha Miss on the threshold of greatness but first the trainer has some unfinished business with stable stalwart County Tyrone...

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...

First off, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steven McAllister, and I am the nephew of the late George Tafe. Many of you would have read George's articles in the past, and hopefully fou...