Getaway 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...

Hugh Bowman got away to an expected 'slow' start to his latest UK riding stint at Royal Ascot overnight. He finished 6th of 14 on 40/1 chance Gallic Star and 13th of 25 aboard another 40/1 roughie ...

Even for a traditionally slow beginner like John Size, the seven-time champion handler has left the blocks even too tardily for his liking this season but a four-win haul at Sha Tin went some way...

Unluckiest runner in the rough-house Blue Diamond at Caulfield? Probably 4th placegetter Willow Creek 11/1, who was held up for runs but finished only about a length from the winner. Evidentia was ...

A slow getaway probably cost Aussie sprinter Star Witness a win in the King's Stand Stakes 1000m at Royal Ascot overnight. Star Witness 6/1 settled down last and drove through on the rails to finis...

The Wagga Cup carnival has been a happy hunting ground for trainer Graeme Rogerson who will again target the two-day festival this year.Barlagarney will spearhead Rogerson's four-strong team when h...

Denman cruised to his third straight victory in as many starts this preparation in the D'Urban Stakes at Caulfield and is now the long odds-on favourite to take out the Group One Australian Guineas...