Classic Royale 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...

Saturday's impressive BJ McLachlan Stakes winner Unencumbered has extended his lead in the latest order of entry for the upcoming $2 million Jeep Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m). The Bjorn Bake...

Manighar, the import who had never raced at less than 2400 metres until joining the Peter Moody stable, gave the leading trainer and his stable jockey Luke Nolen their first win in the $1 million A...

BENDIGO Acceptances on Thursday 9th December, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 9m Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-02.45 MANTRA HOTELS RESOR...

Having studied every runner in the TAB's first market, I have settled on my early 'Top 5' for this year's running of the Blue Diamond. 2yo form is obviously very difficult to line up and I have bas...

How  to define class? Yes, it's that age-old handicapping issue and one that despite the many changing classifications of races we've had in recent years remains an ongoing riddle. How can we com...