Buckland 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...

Three-year-old Pied A Terre will join an elite group of champions if he can win the Group Two Blamey Stakes at Flemington.Cox Plate-winning filly Surround was the last three-year-old Blamey winner ...

HE MIGHT not yet have the aura of celebrated stablemates, but unbeaten Darley three-year-old Pied A Terre is likely to take another step up in class when he takes on the older horses in the Chester...

Pied A Terre is a bit of a find, and there's every reason to think he'll be a classics contender in 2012. Not surprisingly, the Darley mob are hoping he'll measure up to the Australian Guineas - an...

The Peter Snowden stable believes Saturday is the perfect time for Pied A Terre to take on older horses and tackle a black-type race for the first time in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington....

Peter and Paul Snowden are still tossing up what to do with their classy newcomer Pied A Terre, who notched his second big win at Flemington. Paul says Pied A Terre does everything so easily that i...

Lightly-raced three-year-old Pied A Terre is unlikely to clash with celebrated stablemate Helmet in the Australian Guineas despite winning the Group Two Autumn Stakes at Caulfield.Ridden by Mark Za...