Brave Apache 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...

What a flop! Takeover Target put in a rare poor performance in the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore. He was 4th one-out on the turn but was gone as soon as the field turned for home. Jockey Jay Ford s...

Like the sweetest of 'Land Ho's!' to a listing over-laden lifeboat, next Saturday's Bletchingly Stakes signifies that first creeping finger of hope amidst the inky winter black; the soothing rays o...

THE Australian-trained contingent at Sha Tin yesterday had a miserable day with Scenic Blast bleeding from both nostrils after the Hong Kong International Sprint and Apache Cat pulling up sore, rep...

Trainer Mick Mair has a warning for connections of Oakleigh Plate winner Swiss Ace's rivals if they think his tough autumn campaign might harm the defence of his Sir Byrne Hart Stakes title at Eagl...