Fletcher's Mutiny 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...

Can history strike again? Those who like to link the past with the present point out that this spring's Cox Plate winner is likely to compete in Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. The past four...

This year's Dubai Australian Cup quinella of Manighar and Southern Speed are set to resume their hostilities at Flemington this Saturday with the pair among 19 entries for the $305,000 Group 2 Maky...

Recent history says, if the punters come for Sincero in Saturday's Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes, the New South Wales visitor could be a good thing in the $400,000 Group 1.A quirky pattern h...

Smart sprinter Danleigh has been installed the early fav for Sat's Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington. Danleigh has failed in five attempts at the 'mile' but TAB Sportsbet odds-maker have him...

Danny O'Brien is buoyant about the prospects of Vigor making it back-to-back Makybe Diva Stakes wins even though the Caulfield Cup placegetter won't be as fit as he was 12 months ago.The O'Reilly s...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva will be covered by champion Vinery stallion More Than Ready next season.Makybe Diva, whose first son by Galileo was sold for $1.5 million at this year's ...