Flying Hunter 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 Tracey Bartley is banking on a text book frontrunning ride from big-race jockey Jim Cassidy to get Sniper's Bullet home in the Group One Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.Sniper's B...

Full brothers Sniper's Bullet and Slick Sniper have pleased trainer Tracey Bartley since returning home to NSW from Queensland campaigns which did not go to plan.Group One winner Sniper's Bullet se...

Full brothers Sniper's Bullet and Slick Sniper have pleased trainer Tracey Bartley since returning home to NSW from Queensland campaigns which did not go to plan.Group One winner Sniper's Bullet se...

Full brothers Sniper's Bullet and Slick Sniper have pleased trainer Tracey Bartley since returning home to NSW from Queensland campaigns which did not go to plan.Group One winner Sniper's Bullet se...

Brilliant Light's trainer Kerry Parker says the Doncaster Mile placegetter will concede a fitness edge to some of his high-profile Warwick Stakes rivals.The five-year-old will make his return in th...

Brilliant Light's trainer Kerry Parker says the Doncaster Mile placegetter will concede a fitness edge to some of his high-profile Warwick Stakes rivals.The five-year-old will make his return in th...