Cold Train 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...

Trainer Mick Price has landed a double across two states after splitting his luck with stablemates Nakaaya and Luminous Harmony.Price had both fillies engaged in Saturday's East Malvern Community B...

It was a case of passion winning out over a career as a physiotherapist for trainer Ben Ahrens who landed his first Saturday metropolitan winner with Spechenka at Doomben.Ahrens has been training f...

A good run at Caulfield on Saturday will see Bartholdi press on to the Group One South Australian Derby in May.The Statue Of Liberty gelding will race with winkers on for the first time in the Spor...

English professional Malcolm Smith runs a small tipping service in the UK and aims to make consistent profits. He achieves this by the use of a set of investment rules. Malcolm recently outlined ...

It's closer to midnight than midday when Peter Moody begins the daily ritual of the racehorse trainer.A coffee, a smoke, a warm jacket and out into the stable yard to check on the horses.It's diffi...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michael Rodd believes his lean winter carnival run is set to end with his second Group One Queensland Derby victory aboard Shootoff at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Rodd has h...