Bolt By 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...

Trainer Bev Laming will put his reputation with stayers to the test in Sydney during the spring following Crossthestart's decisive victory at Doomben.The former New Zealand gelding passed his first...

Trainer Bevan Laming hopes to sort out interstate plans for emerging middle-distance galloper Crossthestart after the gelding returns from a short break at Eagle Farm.Crossthestart will be ridden b...

Trainer Bevan Laming hopes to sort out interstate plans for emerging middle-distance galloper Crossthestart after the gelding returns from a short break at Eagle Farm.Crossthestart will be ridden b...

Trainer Bevan Laming proved once again why he's one of the country's best trainers of stayers when he won his third Brisbane Cup with Crossthestart at Eagle Farm.Laming teamed with his favourite jo...

Trainer Bevan Laming proved once again why he's one of the country's best trainers of stayers when he won his third Brisbane Cup with Crossthestart at Eagle Farm.Laming teamed with his favourite jo...

Trainer Bevan Laming proved once again why he's one of the country's best trainers of stayers when he won his third Brisbane Cup with Crossthestart at Eagle Farm.Laming teamed with his favourite jo...