Boss 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...

Nicconi's win in the Lightning Stakes has only strengthened Grahame Begg's opinion of his stable star All Silent.The David Hayes-trained Nicconi claimed his second Group One victory with a barnstor...

Trainer Grahame Begg remains optimistic about Handsupfordetroit's chances in the Group One Randwick Guineas despite a nightmare barrier draw which gave the gelding the widest gate for Saturday's fe...

Trainer Grahame Begg remains optimistic about Handsupfordetroit's chances in the Group One Randwick Guineas despite a nightmare barrier draw which gave the gelding the widest gate for Saturday's fe...

Grahame Begg can't fault the condition of Villiers winner Palacio De Cristal ahead of the Chipping Norton Stakes but is worried a couple of factors may play against the mare.Palacio De Cristal retu...

A Queen Elizabeth Stakes field devoid of a genuine weight-for-age star has Grahame Begg growing in confidence about closing out the Sydney autumn carnival in the same way he started it.Begg got off...

Grahame Begg continued his winning run when debutante Al Sahra scored a surprise victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Randwick trainer has a spring in his step and is excited about welcoming back...