Exceed The Wish 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...

Warwick Farm trainer Ron Leemon was granted his wish when Manawanui drew barrier three for Saturday's $1 million Caulfield Guineas.Leemon said on Tuesday he had wanted the Group One Golden Rose win...

Local rider Ben So Tik-hung has already snared one cup race for John Size this season 

There is a new princess of Australian racing with Black Caviar giving birth to a filly in the early hours of Saturday morning. The filly, who was born in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, has a ...

Target betting always has its critics, many of them vehement in their criticism. Yet I believe there is a great deal to be said in its favour. As long as you ensure the safety aspect of a 'brake...

Target betting always has its critics, many of them vehement in their criticism. Yet I believe there is a great deal to be said in its favour. As long as you ensure the safety aspect of a 'brake...

Target betting always has its critics, many of them vehement in their criticism. Yet I believe there is a great deal to be said in its favour. As long as you ensure the safety aspect of a 'brake...