Fend Off 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...

Multiple premiership winner Douglas Whyte could have to fend off two Australian jockeys this season to claim another Hong Kong title.Whyte shares the early running with last season's adversary Bret...

Ageless warrior Theseo has a small piece of Tulloch Lodge's rich history on his side as he tries to fend off glamour stablemate More Joyous in the George Main Stakes at Randwick.The George Main rec...

Champion jockey Douglas Whyte's freshly rekindled relationship 

At this stage, they are all key meetings but Wednesday night's all-weather card looks a significant moment in the trainers' championship and Caspar Fownes looks set to get the best of it in the fi...

A couple of spring contenders have made their presence felt on the winter circuit and helped Gai Waterhouse stretch her lead in the Sydney trainers' premiership at Randwick.Dreamscape and Swift All...

A couple of spring contenders have made their presence felt on the winter circuit and helped Gai Waterhouse stretch her lead in the Sydney trainers' premiership at Randwick.Dreamscape and Swift All...