Daunting Decision 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...

Red Cadeaux  will not run in the race he was initially sent to Australia to contest, the $1.6 million Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m). But the three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up will still be at Rand...

Craig Williams made a rushed trip from Melbourne to partner Ortensia in a gallop at Doomben on Wednesday but is no closer to deciding if he'll ride the filly in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at...

Craig Williams made a rushed trip from Melbourne to partner Ortensia in a gallop at Doomben on Wednesday but is no closer to deciding if he'll ride the filly in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at...

When we talk about 'comprehensive handicapping' we mean an approach to form analysis that attempts to take into account as many key factors as possible. This can be a daunting task for most Auss...

I have always held the belief that winning form is good form. And it is – generally speaking! The one thing that is a fact, an unassailable one, is that last-start winning form has to be taken ser...

So far in this series, I have introduced a dozen major E betting angles to consider in a well-tempered betting portfolio.