Corkscrew 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...

Jumps racing is again under the microscope with the death of a horse at Moonee Valley, the first fatality since the sport resumed late last month.Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) suspended jumps racin...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Jumps racing is again under the microscope with the death of a horse at Moonee Valley, the first fatality since the sport resumed late last month.Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) suspended jumps racin...

Jumps racing is again under the microscope with the death of a horse at Moonee Valley, the first fatality since the sport resumed late last month.Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) suspended jumps racin...