Gold Bracelet 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...

Shaune Ritchie is aware of the difficulty in peaking three-year-olds twice in one season but believes the signs are encouraging for New Zealand Oaks winner Miss Artistic.Ritchie is confident Miss A...

The Doomben Cup and not the Queensland Oaks is looming as the Group One winter target for Miss Darcey after she lines up in the Gold Coast Bracelet.Trainer Anthony Cummings believes Miss Darcey has...

Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Pompeii Ruler heads the 14 nominations for the Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.Trainer Mick Price will decide later this week whether to back Pompeii Ruler up in S...

A minor setback has put the promising filly Papal Joy behind schedule for her bid at next month's Group One Queensland Oaks but trainer Brian Wakefield isn't giving up the fight.Papal Joy was nomin...

Mighty midget Marveen staked a serious claim for the Group One Queensland Oaks later this month with a gutsy win in the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet.Marveen, ridden by Blake Shinn, had to overcome a ...

Shane Fliedner is hoping that the home ground advantage will help his two runners Sparks Alight and Sparks Burn at the Bendigo stand-alone metropolitan-class meeting on Saturday.Sparks Alight will ...