Don't Say No 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...

GAI WATERHOUSE does not want the State Government appointing directors should Sydney racing venture down the super race club trac, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.Its report adds: Speaking at yes...

Connections of new Stradbroke fav Black Piranha say they don't care if the Eagle Farm track is a bog on Saturday. Part-owner John Karakatsanis says: 'He handles wet tracks and this is his race. He ...

Track Wet Don't Bet?I hate most "off" tracks.Last year at this time, though, I had a picnic with Riva San, getting 30/1 the Oaks and very juicy odds in the Derby as a dessert. She raced on genuinel...

So THEY Say...Try these:They've backed the topweight.They've come out of the woodwork to back Drongo Junior.They knew what they were doing.When they put their money down they're rarely wrong.They a...

We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to ourselves, we keep on repeating history! A pal was moan...

Trainer Marc Conners is keeping his options open for wet track specialist Mr Clangtastic who is almost no chance to run in Thursday's Newcastle Cup.No rain is forecast and the prospect of a good tr...