Flying Metal 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...

Metal Bender has slipped from Caulfield Cup favouritism but still holds sway with his trainer Chris Waller.The triple Group One winner was elevated to the top of markets after his slashing fourth b...

ROSEHILL1 Flying Snitzel $6,000 @ $2.15, $5,000 @ $2.20 (twice) - $3.60 into $2.152 Zaratone $13 into $7.50, Master Of Design $5,000 @ $4.80 - $13 into $5.50 then into $4.403 Mosheen $8,000 @ $1.45...

Owner David Fuller may have found a carnival replacement for Metal Bender in Iron Lace who took another step towards the AJC Australian Oaks with victory at Randwick on Wednesday.Triple Group One w...

WITH Craig Williams flying high in Japan on a temporary contract, top Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman is the new rider for star mare Ortensia in the group 1 BTC Cup at Doomben on Saturday, reports The Ag...

Not much has gone right for Rebel Raider since he has been in Sydney but not much has to change to turn things around in Saturday's Rosehill Guineas.The first thing trainer Leon Macdonald wants is ...

Brilliant Light's trainer Kerry Parker says the Doncaster Mile placegetter will concede a fitness edge to some of his high-profile Warwick Stakes rivals.The five-year-old will make his return in th...