Wins One 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...

Atlantic Jewel is the dominant $1.45 fav for the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on Wednesday. She's also the last leg of a racing treble for one TAB Sportsbet customer who will collect $320,000 if t...

He's still number one, in Mauritius anyway...Shane Dye, who could hardly get a decent ride in Sydney after his return from Hong Kong, has emerged as the champion jockey for the 2009 season in Mauri...

Six-year-old Booming made it back-to-back Group One wins with a stunning victory in the $NZ200,000 Thorndon Mile at Trentham on Saturday.He had won the weight-for-age Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Elle...

Peter Robl rode his first Group One winner for the high-profile Patinack Farm operation when Onemorenomore upset his more-fancied rivals in the Champagne Stakes at Randwick.The Red Ransom colt enjo...

Australian jockey Craig Williams has claimed a Group One win in Japan, taking out the NHK Mile in Tokyo aboard Grand Prix Boss.Williams has just begun a three-month contract in Japan but will be ho...

Star New Zealander Mufhasa has taken his Group One tally to eight with victory in the Captain Cook Stakes at Trentham.The winner of the Toorak Handicap during the Melbourne Spring carnival, Mufhasa...