Castle Ridge 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...

Brilliant 3YO Sea Siren is clinging to early favoritism for Sat's Doomben 10,000, according to the latest market from www.betstar.com.au.DOOMBEN 10,000Sea Siren 4.40 Buffering 4.60 Pampelonne 8.00 ...

Highly-rated UK stayer Sea Moon has arrived in quarantine in Sydney. The 5YO entire may make his Australian debut for new owner Lloyd Williams in March. Williams told Sky Racing's Andrew Bensley th...

Doomben 10,000 winner Sea Siren is now at $5.00 (4/1) to win the Stradbroke despite not being a certain starter for the big Grp 1 race at Eagle Farm on June 9. The exceptional 3YO filly is expecte...

Red hot sire Fastnet Rock added a new Group I winner to his burgeoning tally of equine superstars when lightly raced three year-old filly Sea Siren smashed older rivals to win the Group I BTC Cup a...

Red Cadeaux, close-up 2nd in last year's Melbourne Cup, is having his final UK race on Thursday night before heading to Australia for another crack at the Cup. Ed Dunlop's tough 6YO was beaten a no...

There were lots of good betting hits at Canterbury, Sandown and Eagle Farm. In Sydney, Gaze In Awe was well supported and bought off a nice plunge, while Sea Galleon was the popular choice in race ...