Gold Chain 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...

Gallica, a filly with a bent leg who was taken to Bairnsdale to break her maiden status less than two months ago, came up trumps when winning the Group One Thousand Guineas at Caulfield.It was an e...

Ironstein, rated the slowest horse ever to come out of John Singleton's Strawberry Hill stud, could be headed for a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups campaign next year following his narrow win in the L...

Ironstein, rated the slowest horse ever to come out of John Singleton's Strawberry Hill stud, could be headed for a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups campaign next year following his narrow win in the L...

Ironstein, rated the slowest horse ever to come out of John Singleton's Strawberry Hill stud, could be headed for a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups campaign next year following his narrow win in the L...

Ironstein, rated the slowest horse ever to come out of John Singleton's Strawberry Hill stud, could be headed for a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups campaign next year following his narrow win in the L...

We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to ourselves, we keep on repeating history! A pal was moan...