Four Some 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...

Not so bad...Corey Brown had a small win over those new whip rules yesterday. On appeal, he had four meetings cut from suspension incurred for twice breaching the rules at the Wyong Cup meeting on...

One of the excellent facets of the RWWA website (http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris) is that the formguide is already sitting there for you as early as Wednesday morning for the forthcoming Saturday Perth...

THE Grand Annual Steeplechase remains the only feature race Robert Smerdon hasn't won at the Warrnambool May carnival after his superstar steeplechaser Some Are Bent yesterday defied a massive weig...

Not surprisingly, Australian Racing Board's new CEO Peter McGauran has come out and blasted the ABC's Four Corners program on alleged race-fixing and money laundering. He reckons the program's scre...

Gerald Ryan believes the only thing standing in the way of Synonym fending off some familiar foes in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill is something he is due for - a change of luck.Synonym is on...

Gerald Ryan believes the only thing standing in the way of Synonym fending off some familiar foes in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill is something he is due for - a change of luck.Synonym is on...