Dink 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...

Jockey Peter Robl will long remember his first ride at Eagle Farm after he booted underrated filly Linky Dink to a stylish win in the $500,000 TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday.Robl had never previously ...

Jockey Peter Robl will long remember his first ride at Eagle Farm after he booted underrated filly Linky Dink to a stylish win in the $500,000 TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday.Robl had never previously ...

Jockey Peter Robl will long remember his first ride at Eagle Farm after he booted underrated filly Linky Dink to a stylish win in the $500,000 TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday.Robl had never previously ...

Patinack Farm trainer John Thompson will have a three-pronged attack in Saturday's Australasian Oaks in Adelaide as he looks to win his first Group One feature.The Patinack team has Linky Dink, Sma...

Patinack Farm trainer John Thompson will have a three-pronged attack in Saturday's Australasian Oaks in Adelaide as he looks to win his first Group One feature.The Patinack team has Linky Dink, Sma...

Hot at 2/1...Bookies on Friday had QTC Sires Produce winner Shoot Out a firm fav at $3.00 for the Grp 1 TJ Smith Stakes 1600m at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Toowoomba galloper Choistar, runner-up in th...