Darkbonee 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...

Darley’s super-star filly Guelph gave all of her potential rivals a hint of what may be to come with a slashing win at the Rosehill trials on Tuesday.

Bit of a win for Danny Nikolic...The Victorian Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board has slashed that 13 meetings suspension he copped at Caulfield last Sat. The penalty was reduced to six meeting...

Hail, anothe Aussie hero! Clare Lindop has ridden her second winner in the UK. She booted home Mediciean Man 8/1 for fellow Aussie Jeremy Gask at Doncaster overnight.Later she was beaten a head int...

I Need to Fly, one of the most admired lots at last year's Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale, notched a valuable city win when she rocketed home to win the Cecil Godby 2YO Handicap (1410m) at t...

Sam Clipperton's goal to outride his claim became reality at Canterbury as the talented apprentice recorded his 80th metropolitan win aboard All Salsa. Sydney's leading young rider reached the mi...

Out you go...Dwayne Dunn has been suspended for 10 meetings for careless riding on Forever The Chill in the first race at Sandown Hillside on Wednesday. The suspension begins at midnight on Saturda...