Floating 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...

Shamexpress  may not be the only Australian heading to Royal Ascot.

Sydney punters will only get to see The Offer in the flesh during exhibition gallops and barrier trials with trainer Gai Waterhouse indicating he will campaign solely in Melbourne throughout the ...

BLACK Caviar's possible attempt at two more group 1 races in Brisbane next month will depend on her health and fitness rather than whether a flight will be available, according to her trainer Peter...

At the end of next week the number of Plan A Pensioner Plan selections will reach 487 , assuming 8 races on each of the five metropolitan meetings. As I stated when I first started this experiment ...

Whitefriars' trip to Queensland has been delayed for a couple of weeks and he will instead be in action at Rosehill on Saturday.Prepared at Warwick Farm by Rick Worthington, Whitefriars was an emer...

Cox Plate winner So You Think is 'hot' for Sat's Underwood Stakes. He's the early $1.75 fav after drawing gate #2. Rival trainers, though, reckon he can be beaten. John O'Shea has Zabrasive running...