Damascus Steel 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...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver has sewn up another plum spring ride with trainer Mark Kavanagh announcing he will be on the favourite Whobegotyou in the $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Octo...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver has sewn up another plum spring ride with trainer Mark Kavanagh announcing he will be on the favourite Whobegotyou in the $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Octo...

Jockey Michael Rodd was thrilled to see Whobegotyou end an 11-month losing streak last weekend and even more excited to learn he will be reuniting with the four-year-old in the Underwood Stakes.Aft...

Jockey Michael Rodd was thrilled to see Whobegotyou end an 11-month losing streak last weekend and even more excited to learn he will be reuniting with the four-year-old in the Underwood Stakes.Aft...

Lucky Damien...Damien Oliver has been handed the plum ride on Grp 1 Thousand Guineas favorite Atlantic Jewel at Sat's Caulfield meeting. Atlantic Jewel shot to the top of early betting on the 3YO f...

When Michael Rodd is legged up on New Zealander Nom Du Jeu for Saturday's Cox Plate he will no doubt afford a special look at the chestnut rival he has come to know so well.Whobegotyou is the domin...