Congelator 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 Michael Nolan hopes an older and stronger Gold Rating can provide apprentice Brooke Richardson with her first metropolitan winner at Doomben.However, Nolan concedes the six-year-old's task ...

Apprentice Brooke Richardson will have the handicapper to thank if she can break through for her first metropolitan win aboard Playtime at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Trainer Todd Austin considered enga...

It was a day of firsts for Toowoomba apprentice Brooke Richardson and trainer Deborah Handford at Doomben on Wednesday.Richardson landed her first city winner aboard the Tony Gollan-trained Tiyatro...

Mine That Bird dug up a miracle for a stunning win in the Kentucky Derby with a dynamic run through the mud at Churchill Downs.The three-year-old gelding and jockey Calvin Borel found room along th...