Fire The Shot 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...

Is support building for the WA contender Scenic Shot in the Cox Plate? TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie told PPD: 'We can report significant interest this afternoon...Bets taken today include $10,000 @...

Star Kiwi galloper King Mufhasa hasn't exactly set the world on fire on past trips to Australia but trainer Stephen McKee feels his current form warrants bringing him back for another crack at the ...

Exciting import  Tall Ship  earned himself a shot at a third-straight country cup success with victory in  Sunday’s $50,000 Terang Cup , reports racing.com. The  Darren Weir -trained recruit foll...

I wonder if we'll see Michelle Payne riding again? The popular young jockey copped four fractured vertebrae and broken ribs in a nasty fall from the Darren Weir-trained El Divine at Donald on Sunda...

Emerging New Zealand stayer Castle Heights will return for a shot at the Group One The Metropolitan at Randwick in the spring if the four-year-old performs well in his first tour of duty to Austral...

Emerging New Zealand stayer Castle Heights will return for a shot at the Group One The Metropolitan at Randwick in the spring if the four-year-old performs well in his first tour of duty to Austral...