Crop 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...

Vintage Crop, the first import to win the Melbourne Cup back in 1993, has today died in Ireland. He was 27 years old and had been the oldest living Cup winner. He was retired from racing after ru...

Mick Kinane has hailed Vintage Crop as an "iconic stayer" after the Melbourne Cup hero passed away at the age of 27, reports the Irish Racing Post. Trained by Dermot Weld, Vintage Crop becam...

Champion Irish trainer Dermot Weld reflected fondly on his grand galloper Vintage Crop, the 1993 Melbourne Cup winner, who died on Monday at the age of 27. As the first internationally-trained...

Solid field sizes, a couple of races full to capacity, providing true pace, no sign of track bias and some brilliant navigation all made for an interesting day's racing. The type you want to bet on...

Dermot Weld intends to be back for a crack at winning his third Melbourne Cup when Australia's iconic horse race is run for the 150th time on November 2.Weld played his part in helping make the Mel...

Classic crop gallopers All You Wish and Designs On Rome are sure to have plenty of memorable clashes ahead of them but All You Wish should maintain an unbeaten record over his rival in ...