Cute As 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...

Those people who play the English soccer pools, or used  to, may be familiar with what the Poms call 'perms' - or permutations. These were used to link selections so the bettor had a chance to obt...

Those people who play the English soccer pools, or used  to, may be familiar with what the Poms call 'perms' - or permutations. These were used to link selections so the bettor had a chance to obt...

Those people who play the English soccer pools, or used  to, may be familiar with what the Poms call 'perms' - or permutations. These were used to link selections so the bettor had a chance to obt...

The Peter Moody stable has delayed a decision on whether to start unbeaten filly Cute Emily at Caulfield on Saturday or take her to Adelaide for the South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes.The Chois...

Trackwork and weather will be key factors in deciding the depth of trainer Peter Moody's Chipping Norton Stakes day team.Moody's Rosehill satellite stable posted a breakthrough Sydney win at the we...

Pins filly Shopaholic showed last week's win over VRC Oaks winner Mosheen was no fluke when she won the Angus Armanasco Stakes with even more authority at Caulfield.Trained by Danny O'Brien, Shopah...