Fighting Heart 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 Newitt says the Mick Price-trained Heart of Dreams' love of a "dogfight" will go a long way towards giving the jockey his third Australian Cup win at Flemington.Newitt, who sprung an upset on...

Veteran English galloper Bauer will try to defy his age and forge a path to the Melbourne Cup when he tries for an historic second Geelong Cup win.The pony-sized nine-year-old, trained by Luca Cuma...

He was renowned for his fighting qualities but this was one battle Northerly could not win.The champion galloper was euthanased on Wednesday night, aged 15, after failing to recover from a severe c...

Sydney's glamour mare More Joyous announced she was back to her best with a brilliant return win in Saturday's Group Two Canterbury Stakes at Rosehill.More Joyous ($2.90 fav) raced below her best i...

Trainer Gerald Ryan has avoided taking runners to Grafton for the Ramornie Handicap because he figured the race was too hard to win but this year has brought a change of heart.Ryan has set the stak...

Trainer Gerald Ryan has avoided taking runners to Grafton for the Ramornie Handicap because he figured the race was too hard to win but this year has brought a change of heart.Ryan has set the stak...