Brave Strike 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...

Racing Victoria can confirm that it has been formally advised that the Office of Public Prosecutions will not be laying any charges following a Victoria Police investigation into allegations of ...

The owners of Ortensia will appeal the mare's disqualification from her Group One win in The Galaxy for returning a positive swab.A urine sample taken from Ortensia after the April 17 race showed t...

TAB Fixed Odds price movers for Wednesday's meetings:WARWICK FARM 09/017 Strada Lodge (3E) $18 - $15 ($300 e/w @ $18/$5.25)SANDOWN (L) 09/015 Bass Strait $10 - $7 ($600 x $300 @ $10/$3)6 Captura $1...

The great 'corruption in racing' probe continues...and now it's alleged that top jockey Mark Zahra is embroiled in the Smoking Aces race-fixing scandal. The Age says it can also reveal that the Aus...