Contingency 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...

Epsom Handicap favourite Sincero will only run in the race if the time-honoured event remains at Randwick.The Stradbroke winner's trainer Stephen Farley said the gelding would miss the Epsom and be...

Doomben 10,000 prospect Apache Cat may be helped by Brisbane's waterlogged week...With Doomben rated heavy and with constant rain continuing on Wednesday morning, form analysts are saying that Apac...

A decision on whether spring carnival meetings can be held at Randwick will not be made until Wednesday at the earliest.The Australian Turf Club (ATC) says testing of the QEII stand following the d...

A sensational track gallop by Magic Millions Classic favourite Karuta Queen has left veteran Gold Coast clockers in awe of the unbeaten filly ahead of her bid to win Saturday's $2 million feature.N...

Frrom HK Racing PostFields for Sunday's prestigious HK$14 million Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup showpiece at Sha Tin look certain to be affected by the blanket of volcanic ash across Europ...

The Australian Turf Club (ATC) is set to lose "hundreds of thousands of dollars" over the temporary closure of Randwick's main grandstand due to safety issues.ATC executive Darren Pearce said the t...