Catchpole 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...

Well, just how good is Mic Mac? He's certainly got a real touch of the Hussler about him. It's correct to describe his Aurie's Star win as explosive. But, hey, what about the old marvel who ran 3rd...

Greg Eurell's big spring hope Mic Mac looked good with a sparkling 800 barrier trial win at Cranbourne on Monday. The hitout was so impressive it convinced Eurell that the 4YO should kick off his C...

Trainer Greg Eurell has lost his talented galloper Mic Mac. He's been transferred to Paul Messara at Scone. Mic Mac ran 5th to Hot Danish at Randwick last sat but his departure from the Eurell sta...

Mic Mac will join stablemate Apache Cat in the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday week following a decision to bypass this year's Cox Plate with the four-year-old.Trainer Greg Eurell had a ...

Mic Mac will join stablemate Apache Cat in the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday week following a decision to bypass this year's Cox Plate with the four-year-old.Trainer Greg Eurell had a ...

New Zealand could be added to the destinations of globetrotting trainer Paul Messara who plans to target next year's Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham with Mic Mac.Messara, who arrived back ...