Brantford 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...

Big Time BettingWhen I was doing something entirely different, and I was oh so many years younger, I worked with a chap whose wife always backed the winner of the Melbourne Cup.She had to. She alwa...

Ballarat Turf Club is pushing for the Ballarat Cup to be a stand alone Saturday city meeting next year.Ballarat chief executive Shane Brennan said the club committee would meet next Monday to disc...

It's been more than three decades since Bart Cummings won a Golden Slipper and he thinks it's about time to put that right.A couple of weeks ago there was no indication Australia's legendary traine...

AIDAN O'Brien's hatched plan to win the Melbourne Cup last year failed so spectacularly that it has now been consigned to Cup infamy, reports the Courier-Mail.It says: Don't expect to see a repeat ...

Noel Mayfield-Smith prepared the first winner at a Hawkesbury stand-alone Saturday meeting and now hopes to land one of the feature races on the provincial club's showpiece day.Mayfield-Smith will ...

PETER SNOWDEN might never have a Melbourne Cup runner let alone winner but the head trainer for Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Australia team has something those other trainers do not - a once in a lifet...