Charismatic 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...

Just when you thought it would be safe to declare that Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap (LR) winner Jerezana had topped off a remarkable season for Darley's charismatic Lonhro, the champion stallion e...

Pia Brandt should have more than just visiting European support if she decides to campaign Bathyrhon towards the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup, reports racing.com. The Swedish trainer, who is based...

Exciting 3yo colt Denman confirmed he is the horse to beat in the $1 million Golden Rose (G1) on August 29 with a sparkling performance in the Group 3 Run To The Rose (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturda...

From MURRAY BELL in HK Racing PostCaspar Fownes describes himself as a competitive person by nature, but the energy and focus he put into landing his second trainers' premiership was real eye-of-th...

After weeks of speculation, John O'Shea has been officially announced as the new head trainer for Darley in Australia. O'Shea will take over the reins of the poweful stable from Peter Snowden fol...

The May carnival at The 'Bool is the stuff of legend among Australia's racing fraternity. Indeed, in equine circles, the name 'Warrnambool' signifies not harpoon, lance nor oily cries of 'Chimney's...