Dark Gleam 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...

A cross-border task force has been set up to combat the spread of the deadly Hendra virus in Queensland and NSW.Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell have agreed...

Authorities fear yet another horse has died from the Hendra virus in southern Queensland.The horse fell ill and died at Park Ridge, south of Brisbane, on Monday night, not far from where other Hend...

Another seven people may have been exposed to the Hendra virus in Queensland as authorities face a second possible outbreak of the deadly bat-borne disease.A horse was euthanased at a property at M...

Relax, it's all OK...Melbourne Racing Club chief executive Alasdair Robertson is adamant that strike action by track and maintenance workers will not delay races on Sat's big Caulfield Guineas prog...

There was a Hendra virus scare at Randwick racecourse on Thursday when a horse showed possible symptoms of the deadly infection.Tests have since cleared the horse of having the virus, which has res...

Seymour trainer David Bourne insists promising three-year-old Zamorar has nothing to lose taking on crack colt Sepoy in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington.Zamorar has won two of his t...