Careering Away 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...

Lightly raced import Puissance De Lune, unbeaten in two starts in Australia, will be aimed at the Bendigo Cup in the spring following his impressive win at Sandown.Prepared by Darren Weir, Puissanc...

Rostova bounced back from her Blue Diamond failure when she romped home in the Group Two VRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington and trainer Steve Richards hasn't ruled out a Golden Slipper start f...

Rostova bounced back from her Blue Diamond failure when she romped home in the Group Two VRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington and trainer Steve Richards hasn't ruled out a Golden Slipper start f...

Well, she's in but can she win it? Boom Victorian three-year-old Ortensia has gained a start in next week's Stradbroke Handicap with a gritty win in the mud at Eagle Farm, but the big question rema...

The first thing to be said about 'first uppers' is that you have to be careful. Extremely careful. Most horses resuming from a spell - say 60 days or more - will lose at their first run back. That...