Charmed Destiny 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...

Our Joan Of Arc has already ticked one of the major boxes in trainer Clarry Conners' bid for a fifth Golden Slipper.The dual stakeswinner's earnings of $216,500 assure her of a start in the $3.5 mi...

Clarry Conners has been content to let others take the Golden Slipper spotlight over the past few weeks but that's about to change.The popular trainer has won the Slipper four times and his leading...

Clarry Conners has been content to let others take the Golden Slipper spotlight over the past few weeks but that's about to change.The popular trainer has won the Slipper four times and his leading...

Gai Waterhouse strengthened her Golden Slipper hand when Horizons put in a professional performance to win the Widden Stakes at Randwick and gain compensation for her unlucky run in the Magic Milli...

Gai Waterhouse strengthened her Golden Slipper hand when Horizons put in a professional performance to win the Widden Stakes at Randwick and gain compensation for her unlucky run in the Magic Milli...

San Domenico Stakes hopeful Classic Rush will be out to emulate the deeds of smart sprinter Regimental Gal in more ways than one when she steps out in the Group Three feature at Randwick.Regimental...