Forerunner 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...

UK Cups contender Dandino will follow an identical path to stablemate Jakkalberry as he prepares for his Melbourne spring carnival assault, reports Racing Network.

From US Daily Racing Form Refusing to be denied despite encountering trouble in spots, Melbourne spring prospect Dandino was along in time to prevail as an odds-on choice Saturday in the secon...

CRAIG Williams has landed the plum ride on UK stayer Dandino in the Caulfield Cup, reports Racing Network.  Darren Dance, whose Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock races the seven-year-old, said ...

Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock (ATB) managing owner Darren Dance might have lost last year’s Emirates Melbourne Cup placegetter Jakkalberry to injury over the weekend, but his Spring Racing C...

More great tipping by the PPD Club's 'king of the longshots' Brian Blackwell ...Last Saturday, BB handed out the tip for EVANGELISTA 1st $14.10 at Rosehill, and his only other longshot tip wa...

PPD Club members were handed a brilliant betting coup on Wednesday thanks to our ace form analys t Brian Blackwell, who tipped DE LITTLE ENGINE 1st $26.90 and ZEDEEL 2nd in race 6 at Sand...