Freedom Day 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...

Having heavily invested on Helmet in opening Guineas markets (and with a pretty solid crack at an early Guineas-Cox Plate double to boot), you could say I was slightly agitated as the gates crashed...

Todd Howlett says Glen Boss will have the freedom to ride Star Of Octagonal as he sees fit when the promising galloper makes his return in the Cameron Handicap at Newcastle.Boss rode Star Of Octago...

A day out at the midweeks could prove fruitful for trainer Brian Wakefield with under-rated four-year-old Bretonneux at Doomben.Wakefield has turned to Sydney jockey Chris Munce to assess Bretonneu...

It’s the end of an era for one of the most iconic racing families in Australia with  Fran Houlahan announcing her retirement as a trainer, reports racing.com. After holding a license for 37 year...

Quarantine protocols for travelling racehorses between Australia and New Zealand could be relaxed by late January.But that may be too late for the New Zealand summer carnival to attract the likes o...

Sometimes naming a horse has unforeseen repercussions. Much like Cyberdyne Systems' 'Skynet' network in Terminator II, if the animal/robot in question becomes 'self-aware', so to speak, they might ...