Deep Breath 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...

Deep Field lost his unbeaten record at his sixth start and first run at Group 1 level in Saturday’s $500,000 Lightning Stakes (1000m) with co-trainer John Hawkes saying he “simply wasn’t good enou...

Stephen Theodore has outlined ambitious Spring plans for talented three-year-old Road Trippin’ after he capped a double for the Cranbourne-based trainer at Caulfield today with his win in the $35...

Jay Ford has spent the past few seasons travelling the world to ride Takeover Target but just as that door closed with the champion sprinter's retirement, another one has opened in the form of risi...

Jay Ford has spent the past few seasons travelling the world to ride Takeover Target but just as that door closed with the champion sprinter's retirement, another one has opened in the form of risi...

One of the toughest parts of punting is to hold steady after a body blow or three during an afternoons punting. On Saturday I did not have a bet until Race 5 at Rosehill when I was fortunate enough...

One of the toughest parts of punting is to hold steady after a body blow or three during an afternoons punting. On Saturday I did not have a bet until Race 5 at Rosehill when I was fortunate enough...