Forgotten Son 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...

Strike The Stars hasn't won a race so far this campaign but trainer Anthony Cummings is confident the gelding has the right pedigree and grounding to win Saturday's $1.5 million Australian Derby.St...

Emirates Melbourne Cup mainstay  Red Cadeaux  could have a Spring Racing Carnival travel companion this year, reports racing.com. The three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up’s stablemate Trip To Paris...

Fiveandahalfstar, who along with Kiwi star It’s a Dundeel

Eight-year-old Dao Dao could be the blow-out horse for punters when he tries to defy convention to score a milestone victory in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.Despite his advancing years...

Four-year-old Zagreb could be the forgotten horse in Saturday's Caulfield Cup after he nearly suffocated last start in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.The son of Zabeel finished 11th, seven lengt...

Darley's domination of the feature juvenile races continued on Saturday when Helmet overcame an interrupted preparation to win the Group One Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.The colt's half-length...