Commanding Oak 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...

KATELYN Mallyon has ridden her first winner since resuming from a horrific fall at Flemington last May. Mallyon, who resumed riding on February 9, partnered the Matt Ellerton and Simon Zahra traine...

Katelyn Mallyon secured her second Melbourne metro apprentice title when she guided home the Mick Kent-trained Vintage Lad at Sportingbet Park Sandown on Sunday. The victory gave Mallyon a five w...

Injured jockey Katelyn Mallyon has been placed in an induced coma to restrict her movement after she suffered a broken vertebra in a race fall on Saturday.Mallyon was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospi...

Apprentice Jordan Mallyon will join Aquanita Racing on a three-month loan from trainer Mike Moroney.Mallyon, who still has a 2kg claim in the metropolitan area, said he would benefit from more oppo...

Katelyn Mallyon is the apprentice of the moment and looks the one to follow in the off season judging by her impressive form highlighted by her first metropolitan double at Moonee Valley.The 17-ye...

Apprentice  Katelyn Mallyon  capped her return from injury in style with her first Stakes victory and a running double  at Caulfield on Saturday . After partnering the  Tommy Hughes -trained  Bla...