Flying Joy 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...

Every person connected with Tuesday Joy says the mare is flying and she will literally be doing just that on Tuesday when she boards a plane for Dubai.The Gai Waterhouse-trained multiple Group One ...

Joyful Winner II might not make the heights reached by his former namesake, but the John Moore-trained four-year-old can make a local breakthrough in tonight's Police Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley. ...

Premier Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse says Royal Discretion is going as well as any horse in her stable and is destined for Group One glory this spring.The four-year-old will run first-up in the Gr...

Michelle Payne became the fourth member of her family to either ride or train the winner of the Bendigo Cup when she guided the Mick Kent-trained Banana Man to victory in the Listed feature.She emu...

Anthony Cummings is planning a two-pronged attack on the Group 1 $500,000 Tatts Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.  

The loss of Black Caviar from the Doomben 10,000 has opened the race up, but not by much.The John McNair-trained Hay List dominates betting and rival Rob Heathcote believes his chances of winning w...