Drought Breaker 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...

Bennie Benbow is ready to return to racing's city spotlight - two years after life-saving medical procedure.Benbow, who has Wordmaster entered at Flemington on Saturday, had surgery for a brain ane...

The last month must feel like one of the longest in jockey Darren Beadman's celebrated career - after the champion Australian raised the bat for a half-century of outs yesterday. It has been a frus...

Expectations are high about much-maligned sprinter Snappy Tom ending a 31-month losing streak.Jockey Craig Newitt has warmed to the Danielle Chapman-trained seven-year-old after riding him at his l...

Four-year-old Zupacool has appreciated a firm track and run a track record to win the Bendigo Cup but his return to form has come too late for the headline races this spring.Co-trainers John Symons...

Four-year-old Zupacool has appreciated a firm track and run a track record to win the Bendigo Cup but his return to form has come too late for the headline races this spring.Co-trainers John Symons...