Bunker Buster 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...

Moonee Valley copped 13mls (half an inch) of rain on Thurs afternoon as storms hit Victoria, so it looks very likely that a slow track at least will be posted on Saturday. The rain has triggered be...

Chad Schofield and David Hayes will combine at Moonee Valley on Friday night with  Gregers  in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes. While their partnership may no longer be as strong as it once was, ...

One-time boom sprinter  Deep Field  could back up for the third week in-a-row in Friday’s Group 1 William Reid Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. Wearing blinkers for the first time, the  Team Hawk...

Starts are still up in the air for three-year-olds Starspangledbanner and Shellscrape in Saturday's Group One William Reid Stakes despite both colts galloping impressively at Moonee Valley on Tuesd...

The Moonee Valley Racing Club yesterday received 14 nominations for Saturday's William Reid Stakes, with a gallop at the track this morning to help decide if $10 million colt, Starspangledbanner ru...

Trainer Chris Waller is likely to bypass the William Reid Stakes with Shellscrape on Saturday in favour of the Oakleigh Plate a week later.Waller accepted for the William Reid with Shellscrape but ...