Even Chance 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...

Wouldn't it be great to see Kathy O'Hara win the Golden Slipper on $15,000 yearling Chance Bye? Great, too, for battler trainer Michael Tubman. Chance Bye, again ridden in flawless style by Kathy, ...

Up and down filly Chance Bye has turned in a slick trackwork gallop on the eve of her return to racing at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The gallop has thrown even more of a mystery of just how she'll f...

The jumps racing debacle rolls on...Now, the jumps supporters have gone cap-in-hand BEGGING for a change of mind by those in officialdom who have decided to end the sport in Victoria. The jumps peo...

The most important factor in the average horse race is not Speed, pace, trainers, breeding, or jockeys. It is chance. This opinion seems to be a little controversial out there in the handicapping...

Half of Tommy Berry's winners in an impressive first stint have come in trophy races of various levels, and the Australian jockey has the horse to do it again in the Cricket Club Valley Stak...

Doing the form requires decision after decision after decision. The more decisions we make the more likely we can miss something which is why keen punters have all sorts of systematic methods in pl...