Danger Man 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...

Is it over before it starts? Headline-hugger Weekend Hussler's spring carnival campaign is in grave doubt after the flareup of an injury that marred the 4YO's autumn campaign. There'll be a press c...

It's welcome back Magic Man at Happy Valley tonight and it looks like Joao Moreira will be greeted with a win in the night's feature, the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union Cup (1,650m) too, reports t...

The great winning streak continues apace for the PPD Club - with some fantastic successes on Wednesday.

Aussie star So You Think is rated the horse to beat at $3.00 in the Grp 1 Dubai World Cup on March 31. The Aidan O'Brien-trained galloper has not been seen since finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cu...

Well, we don't want to go through that again! Black Caviar just made it with her win in the Diamond Jubilee at Ascot. It was as nasty a finish as you'll ever see., Luke Nolen almost made a 'blunder...

A key gear change and Joao Moreira back aboard can extract an extra length of effort from Electronic Phoenix and help deliver Triple Trio players a share of a big jackpot at Sha Tin on Saturday,...