Charpanda 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...

Globetrotting trainer David Hayes will look to bring down the curtain on the Lindsay Park era with success on the other side of the world with Nicconi in the July Cup at Newmarket tonight (Saturday...

Wonder what Dad would have said? Latest news is that David Hayes is selling the family's famous Lindsay Park complex. He's planning a full-time move to Victoria. David's legendary father Colin esta...

Flemington hosts its traditional ANZAC Day meeting this Friday featuring the ANZAC Day Stakes and time honoured VRC St Leger. The Listed, $120,000 ANZAC Day Stakes for two-year-olds, a race won i...

David Hayes is keen to tell the world that he's not finished as a front-rank trainer and that the Hayes empire is live and well and ready to burst into 'life' again...He's certainly in a bad patch ...

Much hyped import Changingoftheguard has died after complications during gelding surgery at Lindsay Park. Australian interests bought the son of Montjeu for a reported $1 million hoping to win last...

The outstanding metropolitan winners of four juvenile races down the eastern seaboard of Australia on Saturday joined the rush of quality gallopers heading to next month's $2 million BMW Magic Mill...