Dancing Water 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...

Michelle Payne will get the chance to claim a second Group One win for Bart Cummings when she partners Suyama in Saturday's AJC Australian Derby.Payne rode her first Group One winner when the Cummi...

Michelle Payne will get the chance to claim a second Group One win for Bart Cummings when she partners Suyama in Saturday's AJC Australian Derby.Payne rode her first Group One winner when the Cummi...

Half of Tommy Berry's winners in an impressive first stint have come in trophy races of various levels, and the Australian jockey has the horse to do it again in the Cricket Club Valley Stak...

Grahame Begg can't fault the condition of Villiers winner Palacio De Cristal ahead of the Chipping Norton Stakes but is worried a couple of factors may play against the mare.Palacio De Cristal retu...

Brett Prebble won't get the chance to ride Smart Missile in the Caulfield Guineas. Connections have dumped him after his losing ride on the 3YO in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield. Corey B...

Craig Newitt will reunite with Lankan Rupee in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes at Royal Randwick on April 12. Chad Schofield, who rode the Mick Price trained galloper to victory in the Newmarket Hand...