Elderly Paradise 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...

TASMANIAN stayer Norsqui surprised even his trainer Walter McShane when he ran strongly to claim an easy victory in yesterday's $300,000 Mornington Cup, which has given him a guaranteed start in th...

Tasmanian stayer Norsqui surprised even his trainer Walter McShane when he ran home strongly to claim an easy victory in the $300,000 Mornington Cup.Norsqui won the 2800m race at Flemington on Melb...

Popular local galloper Geegees Blackflash has given Tasmanian trainer John Luttrell and owners Paul and Elizabeth Geard their biggest thrill in racing with victory in Sunday's Group Three Hobart Cu...

Injury prone Tasmanian galloper Geejayhaitch returns to Sandown for the first time since breaking down after a win there in August.Trainer Walter McShane said the seven-year-old was found to have f...