Dark Stratum 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...

Craig Williams will be in Singapore on Sunday to test the Melbourne spring credentials of the Steven Burridge-trained Dark Matter.Williams is heading to Singapore after riding at Saturday's Bletchi...

Victorian owner Fred D'Amico has been the big winner from a new racing concept which has delivered him two stakes victories in less than two months.Two-year-old Dark Valley won his race debut in We...

Crystal Lily's connections are warming to running the Victorian flyer in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper in April.By 2005 Slipper winner Stratum, Crystal Lily is among 16 nominations for Saturday's...