Fat Albert 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...

Albert The Fat's win in the BTC Cup at Doomben surprised most punters, but not buyers of my e-book Knockout Horses. Albert The Fat was a selection from the secret formula revealed in the book. The ...

A change of scenery has been used in a late bid to enhance the Doomben 10,000 fortunes of Albert The Fat.Trainer Chris Waller sent Albert The Fat to Hawkesbury on Sydney's outskirts on Monday to co...

A minor spike in temperature could present a major opportunity for the latest eastern states horse to be ruled out of the Perth racing carnival.Albert The Fat, who joined Australian racing's big le...

Jockey Brad Pengelly gave Queensland's rising star Albert The Fat the thumbs up for a Sydney spring campaign following the sprinter's rousing victory at Doomben.Albert The Fat was ridden coolly in ...

Rookie trainer Eden Petrie plans to give promising sprinter Albert The Fat the chance of spring glory in Sydney and Melbourne following his comeback victory at Eagle Farm.Albert The Fat, having his...

Rookie trainer Eden Petrie plans to give promising sprinter Albert The Fat the chance of spring glory in Sydney and Melbourne following his comeback victory at Eagle Farm.Albert The Fat, having his...