Fine And Rare 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...

Kerrin McEvoy's Group One tally for 2011 could reach double figures if things go his way in Perth on Saturday.McEvoy will make a rare visit to Ascot to partner New Zealand four-year-old He's Remark...

Chris Waller plans to have four runners in the Summer Cup at Randwick on Boxing Day headed by Bellagio Wynn who is out to complete a rare feature race double.The last-start Christmas Cup winner can...

The Golden Slipper focus was firmly on second favourite Smart Missile on Tuesday following a scintillating workout at Randwick and a favourable barrier draw for Saturday's $3.5 million race.The Ant...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...

The one thing a professional punter knows when he arrives at the racetrack is that prices he will be offered by the bookmakers will not be framed to be fair and correct. In fact, the pro knows th...