Chronic 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...

Memo to TVN's motor-mouth Richard Callander: Give up the 'he's got the bikkies' cliche will you? Screaming it out every race, usually before and after, must be driving viewers mad. I know it annoys...

You probably are as aware as anyone else if you have a gambling problem. But being aware of it doesn't necessarily mean you'll take remedial action. A gambling problem-which means gambling is out...

Talented mare Beethog's performance will come under the microscope at Doomben with connections considering a Melbourne spring campaign.Beethog hasn't raced since beating just one horse home in the ...

Injury-prone galloper Costa In The Glen, who promised so much as a young horse, is on track for his racetrack comeback at Caulfield.The six-year-old has raised the hopes of his frustrated connectio...

Unbeaten mare On The Fridge will face her moment of truth when she aims to extend her winning sequence at Eagle Farm.The five-year-old daughter of Easy Rocking has won all her four starts and train...

Tough decision...Black Caviar's trainer Peter Moody is still mulling over whether the unbeaten superstar should run in Sat's week's Grp 1 Newmarket. BC will create history if she can win with topwe...