Brilliant Eight 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...

An all-the-way Canterbury win to three-year-old Not A Dancer on Wednesday has earned the filly a shot at a black-type race at the same track in April.Canberra trainer Matthew Dale was delighted his...

Gai Waterhouse might have been in Melbourne on Saturday but as usual she left her indelible mark on Sydney racing with four winners from four runners at Randwick including improving stayer Lorne Da...

Heavyweight apprentice Kody Nestor landed a winner at his first ride for premier trainer Gai Waterhouse when Lorne Dancer proved too classy for his opposition at Randwick.The three kilogram-claimin...

Heavyweight apprentice Kody Nestor landed a winner at his first ride for premier trainer Gai Waterhouse when Lorne Dancer proved too classy for his opposition at Randwick.The three kilogram-claimin...

Trainer Norm Hilton will put aside the Bold Glance running and handling inquiry as he looks to gauge Poor Judge's Doncaster Mile prospects when the five-year-old makes his comeback at Eagle Farm.Hi...

Jockey Stathi Katsidis declared Toowoomba speed machine Azzaland a worthy contender for the Group One The Galaxy in Sydney following the gelding's record breaking win at Eagle Farm.Azzaland chased ...