Disruption 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...

Don't do it, please...Latest reports say Victorian racegoers will be inconvenienced by a train strike in Melbourne on Caulfield Cup day. Industrial action is planned for 24 hours on October 11 befo...

THERE will be many more than 50,000 people in the Flemington area today seeking out differing displays of horsepower, but whether they are there to see the world's fastest racehorse or the world's ...

Relax, it's all OK...Melbourne Racing Club chief executive Alasdair Robertson is adamant that strike action by track and maintenance workers will not delay races on Sat's big Caulfield Guineas prog...

Randwick's premier race meetings will remain at the track during major construction work next year.The 2012 Doncaster, AJC Australian Derby and Epsom Handicap will all be held at their traditional ...

REVELATIONS from Racing Victoria Limited chief steward Terry Bailey this week of how to change racing in this state have managed, in just three days, to disenfranchise trainers and a large proporti...

The Gold Coast Turf Club's ambition to become a metropolitan club has moved a step closer following the release of Racing Queensland Limited's Industry Infrastructure Plan.Under the plan, Gold Coas...