Diamond Country 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...

Betting markets across the country view the Blue Diamond Stakes as a one-horse race after Peter Moody announced that second favourite One Last Dance would be a non-runner.In response most betting a...

Stakes-performed Diamond To Pegasus will go head-to-head on the training track with Magic Millions winner Karuta Queen before he resumes racing later this week.Trainer Tony Sergi revealed the finis...

Trainer Robbie Laing believes he has two of the leading chances for the Blue Diamond Stakes in stakes winner Spectrolite and Saturday's impressive Sandown winner Grand Britannia.Laing has raced onl...

A dearth of official Victorian trials for two-year-olds is making the job harder to get juveniles ready for the autumn features including the Blue Diamond Stakes.John Sadler and Troy Corstens' Malu...

Oops, how did they manage to do that? News Ltd reports that Australia's wealthiest race club will report a record profit at the end of the financial year - but a massive loss for its racing activit...

Racing Victoria (RV) has launched a new marketing campaign in partnership with Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) and Country Racing Victoria (CRV) to promote the late summer-early autumn period of elit...