Brown Beauty 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...

MELBOURNE CUP RESULT13.00 AMERICAIN (G & Mrs V Ryan, K & Mrs C Bamford's b/br h 6y Dynaformer (USA) - America (IRE). Trainer: A De Royer-Dupre) 54.5 (G Mosse) 1, 9.00 MALUCKYDAY 51 (L Nolen) 2, 3.0...

The Cups...85 horses are left in the Melbourne Cup after second declarations on Tuesday. It's the same number as at the same stage last year. Seven overseas horses remain. They are the Dermot Weld-...

The international assault on the Melbourne spring is building up steam...Bankable and Mourilyan are the latest stayers to be confirmed. They'll race under Herman Brown's banner in Australia. Bankab...

CANTERBURY Acceptances on Friday 24th September, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: +2m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-07.00 TAB HANDICAP 1900 M...

The field is finalised and now the task ahead is to find which horse will win this year's Melbourne Cup.With 24 horses it is easy to get confused but using Cup history can help eliminate the also-r...

There were 85 horses left in the Melbourne Cup after second declarations were taken on Tuesday, the same number as at the same stage last year.Seven overseas horses remain in the race - the Dermot ...