Force March 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...

Benalla trainer Wayne Nicholls will pursue a big-race dream with Diplomatic Force in The Goodwood on the back of a favourable Adelaide weather forecast.Nicholls has accepted with the six-year-old f...

Diplomatic Force will go into the Group One Goodwood in May without another run with trainer Wayne Nicholls relying on his outstanding fresh record.Diplomatic Force made it four wins from five firs...

Atomic Force will have his first look at the Moonee Valley circuit in a track gallop on Tuesday morning ahead of Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes.The winner of the Group One Galaxy (1100m) on a...

Pure Force will not be among Gerald Ryan's Golden Slipper team but the trainer believes he has the ability to win races starting with Rosehill on Saturday.The Inglis Classic placegetter lines up fo...

Jockey Craig Newitt could hold the key to making Caulfield's Listed LT Cleary Stakes the first Melbourne stakes win for talented sprinter Diplomatic Force.Benalla trainer Wayne Nichols has engaged ...

Jockey Craig Newitt could hold the key to making Caulfield's Listed LT Cleary Stakes the first Melbourne stakes win for talented sprinter Diplomatic Force.Benalla trainer Wayne Nichols has engaged ...