Come Get Me 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...

Here They Come, But Fewer of Them.Let's start with a warning: hold onto your wallets!The Melbourne Cup has closed its noms with 230 received, down from 297 last year.The Caulfield Cup has 227, from...

Derby form has been good form and that points to the Queen Mother Memorial Cup (2,400m) today at Sha Tin being fought out by four-year-olds with the Caspar Fownes-trained Let Me Handle It ready to ...

Lee Freedman still rates Come Hither at the top of the tree as far as his Blue Diamond prospects go after her comfortable but far from impressive victory in the Talindert Stakes at Flemington on Sa...

Lee Freedman still rates Come Hither at the top of the tree as far as his Blue Diamond prospects go after her comfortable but far from impressive victory in the Talindert Stakes at Flemington on Sa...

For troubled apprentice Josh Adams, a comeback victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday was every bit as sweet as riding his first winner.The 19-year-old was outed for seven months earlier this year af...

Toowoomba trainer Norm Hilton is hoping he hasn't gone to the well once too often as he finetunes his quality galloper Carry Me Bluey for a shot at the Bernborough Handicap at Doomben on Saturday.C...