D'Great Beauty 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...

Whenever Greg Childs' name is mentioned, inevitably the name Sunline comes up as well and he is more than happy for that to be so despite his many other achievements."She lifted my profile ten-fold...

John Singleton made a good point when he asked what would racing be without Gai Waterhouse? The eccentric multi-millionire says: 'Gai is a genius - imagine what racing would be without her!' Person...

Whether you are betting a simple staking plan, or an intricate one demanding lots of input and thought, you have to keep one point in mind: Strength of will! Punters battle with this part of thei...

Punters are confident the Danny O'Brien-trained Shamrocker can become the first filly since Research in 1989 to complete the AJC Australian Derby-Oaks double, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It s...

AUSTRALIAN racing is suffering a problem shared by most Western countries. As Australians grow taller and heavier, fewer and fewer have the shape and size to be jockeys and trackwork riders, and tr...

South Australia will stand alone as the only place in the nation with jumps racing, but officials fear for its long-term survival.The controlling body of horse racing in SA, Thoroughbred Racing SA,...