Full Count 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...

The power of the PPD Club's ImpactPro ratings

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...

Black Type racing at Caulfield on Boxing Day and Flemington on New Year’s Day are the feature Melbourne meetings over the Festive period, but they aren’t the only cards conducted in the urban are...

Headstrong youngster Tidalzone will be out to maintain Gerald Ryan's successful association with the family when he makes his debut at Warwick Farm on Saturday.Ryan trained Tidalzone's sire, 2006 G...

If races were awarded for eagerness then Orbit Express would just about be unbeaten.Trainer Steve McKinnon was chuffed to see the five-year-old win again at Caulfield on Saturday and will back him ...

The fairytale continued for Golden Slipper-bound Chance Bye who forced her way into the field for the world's richest race for two-year-olds with victory in the Silver Slipper.Although unbeaten in ...