Diamonds Are 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...

Colac trainer Bill Cerchi is daring to dream with Diamonds At Dusk who will be on trial at Caulfield for a start in next month's Group One Goodwood Handicap.Cerchi, who has been training for 28 yea...

Winning money at any form of racing is a tough assignment. Winning at harness racing, it is said, is harder despite the fact that many more favourites win than in horse-racing. The problem with...

Sneak A Peek , the  Peter Moody-trained import  who was once a leading Caulfield Cup contender, is a chance to resume at Wodonga this Friday. The Italian gelding headlines entries for this week’...

Connections of Sweet Cheeks are looking for her to bounce back with the aid of a couple of gear changes in Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield after a disappointing last-start ef...

Connections of Sweet Cheeks are looking for her to bounce back with the aid of a couple of gear changes in Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield after a disappointing last-start ef...

Globetrotting trainer David Hayes will look to bring down the curtain on the Lindsay Park era with success on the other side of the world with Nicconi in the July Cup at Newmarket tonight (Saturday...