Gitalong 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...

Many punters rely to a great extent on the 'vital statistics' of racing to guide them into their choice of horse for any particular race. In other words, they are swayed by history into trying to ...

Trainer Kelso Wood believes statistics can be misleading and is confident Zero Rock has all the boxes ticked to maintain her unbeaten record this campaign in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doombe...

In his fine book The Key Factor Is Fitness, Queensland racing analyst Barry Blakemore provides some classic examples of how the power of the form book can guide you to winners. The Chester Manifo...

It's always an absorbing talking point in racing to discuss 'where' the winners come from in a race. How many horses lead all the way? How many come from the first few on the turn? How many come f...

This analysis is for favourite backers. For each of the tracks mentioned below, the favourites have been analysed over the past five years. This month these pages compare the favourite results f...

This analysis is for favourite backers, For each of the tracks mentioned below, the favourites have been analysed over the past five years, This month these pages compare the favourite results for...