Continent 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...

The Australian Racing Board is at it again...Its new whip laws are not even in force and it's changing them...Now we're told that stewards will take a soft approach to penalties for breaches of the...

Champion sprinter Black Caviar has run her last race for the year with trainer Peter Moody deciding against a trip to Perth for the Winterbottom Stakes.Moody told racing officials on Monday that th...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...

Multiple Group One winner and top-class sire Singspiel has been put down at the age of 18.Sheikh Mohammed's homebred developed laminitis following a long illness and the difficult decision was to t...