Global Beauty 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...

There was a confident ring in the air that Irish mare Profound Beauty could give trainer Dermot Weld his third Melbourne Cup victory when she was backed to win more than $3.4 million at the Call of...

A trio of Melbourne Cup hopefuls from global racing powerhouse Godolphin arrived at the Werribee International Horse Centre on Tuesday. Godolphin and stable trainer Saeed bin Suroor have been tryi...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

The loneliness of long distance travel can be as troubling for horses as it is for humans.And as New Zealand trainer John Bary has discovered, it is one of dozens of obstacles in the world of globa...

Godolphin's travelling foreman Tommy Strang says the international Melbourne Cup raiders are among the strongest he has seen.Global powerhouse Godolphin is trying to win its first Melbourne Cup but...

Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter says that So You Think's chance to win a Melbourne Cup may have gone.The Bart Cummings-trained champion, who won his second Cox Plate two weeks ago ...