Double Take 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...

Bart Cummings is quietly confident he can take out the big autumn double of the AJC Oaks and AJC Derby. He has Faint Perfume in great nick for the Oaks and Rock Classic primed for the Derby. The ma...

I've always held to the belief that if you are going to take a double then make sure you include a favourite in at least one leg. Sometimes it may cruel a dividend, but it will ensure you don't ...

I've always held to the belief that if you are going to take a double then make sure you include a favourite in at least one leg. Sometimes it may cruel a dividend, but it will ensure you don't ...

I've always held to the belief that if you are going to take a double then make sure you include a favourite in at least one leg. Sometimes it may cruel a dividend, but it will ensure you don't ...

I've always held to the belief that if you are going to take a double then make sure you include a favourite in at least one leg. Sometimes it may cruel a dividend, but it will ensure you don't ...

Joe Pride snapped a frustrating lean spell in emphatic fashion at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with a winning double.Pride's brace came courtesy of promising three-year-olds Rain Affair and Take The O...