Denham Bay 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...

Those pesky Kiwis...New Zealand-bred horses have now won 54 'black type' races in Australia this season. They've claimed six Group races this month. The Kiwis get further opportunity for Stakes rac...

The Kiwis seem confident that Wall Street can wreak havoc in Australia next year. Wall Street is heading home to the spelling paddock before returning in the autumn to contest weight-for-age races ...

RACE 7 - THE QUEEN'S SILVER JUBILEE CUPHappy Zero (2) has continued his brilliant form this season with straight Group wins sprinting before a solid effort for second behind Good Ba Ba in the HK Mi...

The formidable record of the fairer sex in the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) added a notable new heroine in the shape of Waikato Stud's multiple Gr.1 winner Daffodil (NZ) (No Excuse Needed) on Sa...

Shane Scriven has appealed a careless riding suspension and has been granted a stay of proceedings to enable him to ride Scenic Shot in the Group Two Sandown Classic on Saturday.Scriven was charged...

Shane Scriven has appealed a careless riding suspension and has been granted a stay of proceedings to enable him to ride Scenic Shot in the Group Two Sandown Classic on Saturday.Scriven was charged...