Faye Runaway 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...

A luckless Emirates Stakes result has convinced trainer Anthony Cummings to keep Dealer Principal in training to try to snap a spring losing streak.Dealer Principal hasn't been able to win in five ...

Phelan Ready beat the best juveniles of his generation to win the Golden Slipper so it might seem strange that trainer Jason McLachlan has always looked forward to the day the star colt turned thre...

Phelan Ready beat the best juveniles of his generation to win the Golden Slipper so it might seem strange that trainer Jason McLachlan has always looked forward to the day the star colt turned thre...

Peter Robl's checklist ahead of a riding comeback at Rosehill on Saturday has been finalised - with one exception.Of the factors he can control as he prepares to ride in a race for the first time i...

Peter Robl's checklist ahead of a riding comeback at Rosehill on Saturday has been finalised - with one exception.Of the factors he can control as he prepares to ride in a race for the first time i...

Black Piranha is still three weeks away from his return but trainer Con Karakatsanis believes he is on target for his shot at Stradbroke history.The seven-year-old will try to become the first hors...