Doona 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...

Shane Scriven has been granted a stay of proceedings against a five-month suspension for stealing a whip from a rival rider in an Ipswich race earlier this month.The stay will enable Scriven to rid...

Veteran Queensland jockey Shane Scriven has been handed a career-threatening five-month ban for stealing an apprentice's whip during a race at Ipswich last week.Throughout his 30-year career, Scriv...

Pre-post favourites Manighar and Shez Sinsational are obvious threats to Scenic Shot collecting a third Doomben Cup, the veteran galloper's jockey Shane Scriven says.Scriven, who credits the $3.2 m...

Veteran West Australian gelding Scenic Shot has won his second Doomben Cup in a tight finish from European imports My Kingdom Of Fife and Glass Harmonium.The eight-year-old won the Brisbane feature...

Shane Scriven hopes to celebrate winning his first Brisbane jockeys' premiership with an early victory aboard Jazz Heart at Doomben.Scriven has five rides on Saturday and rates Jazz Heart in the Ow...

The wait is finally over for jockey Shane Scriven who will be reunited with Doomben Cup winner Scenic Shot for his Cox Plate campaign in Melbourne.Scriven hasn't ridden since taking a break at the ...