Faraway Bay 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...

THE Australian Jumping Racing Association yesterday claimed that the groundswell of support to overrule the decision to stop jumps races next year was overwhelming, reports the Sunday Age.It says: ...

Champion colt Sepoy is set for another showdown with Buffering in the Group Two Caulfield Sprint.Sepoy came out on top after a fierce battle for the lead when the pair met last start in the Group O...

Cocky Raider is facing a test of his Group One credentials at Rosehill on Saturday but trainer David Payne has also warned not to underestimate stablemate Bushcraft.Both two-year-olds will start in...

The races are getting harder but Jason Clifford refuses to shy away from the challenge with underrated galloper Prince Obama.The five-year-old has always impressed the Geelong trainer and when he t...

Promising Brisbane three-year-old Peppered Black will get a final chance to save himself from an appointment with the surgeon's knife at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Trainer Lawrie Mayfield-Smith has con...

Ambers Waltz will put her Princess Series credentials on the line in the Furious Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.Delivering an early spring ultimatum to the filly, trainer John O'Shea says Ambers Wa...