Ever So Natural 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...

Onemorenomore's natural early speed will be utilised on Saturday with trainer Jason Coyle expecting the colt to race closer to the speed in the Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick.The Red Ransom...

IF ever a champion two-year-old seemed certain to train on as an older horse, it is unbeaten super colt Pierro - unless he is struck by the Golden Slipper curse, reports Ray Thomas in the Sydney Da...

A career in equestrian awaits champion jumper  Bashboy , who has been retired from racing effective immediately. Owner Ian MacDonald has decided to pull the plug on Bashboy’s racing career after ...

They say “weight will stop a train” and it is fair to say that at some point it will. However, the most over-rated variable in thoroughbred racing simply has to be weights. From trainers to owne...

A pair of three-year-olds headline the betting for Wagga's Country Championship Qualifier on Saturday afternoon.   Challenge Accepted and Lord Von Costa are joint $4.80 favourites for the ...

A day after celebrating his 48th birthday, champion jockey Jim Cassidy showed he was still as fiercely competitive as ever with a winning treble at Rosehill on Saturday.Cassidy, who only returned f...