Classic Two 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...

Fresh is best for  Classic Jewellery and the John Size-trained five-year-old has the right handling and conditions to take out Wednesday night's Asian Racing Federation Trophy (1,650m) at Happy...

A timely split from the Lloyd Williams camp could prove fortuitous for jockey Steven Arnold as he attempts to win his third Sandown Classic in four years on Zarita.Arnold this week was dumped as th...

A timely split from the Lloyd Williams camp could prove fortuitous for jockey Steven Arnold as he attempts to win his third Sandown Classic in four years on Zarita.Arnold this week was dumped as th...

Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams says Mourayan is set to mount Macedon Lodge's defence of the Zipping Classic against a trio of international raiders at Sandown after recovering from a foot injury wh...

The focus on two-year-olds will switch to Sydney and Melbourne over the coming weeks starting with Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Classic.Karuta Queen's all-the-way win in Saturday's $2 million Magic M...

Trainer Stuart Webb would be happy if his filly Yosei comes even second or third to top mares Typhoon Tracy and Hot Danish in Saturday's Group One Myer Classic.The Caulfield trainer believes Thousa...