Gold Proof 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...

When it comes to winning major two-year-old races, champion jockey Chris Munce is peerless.His record of two Golden Slippers and three Magic Millions is proof that he thrives on the helter-skelter ...

Former Sydney sprinter Lucky Leak is proof that time and patience ultimately bring rewards.Toowoomba trainer Patrick Sexton and part-owner Marty McInerney have between them transformed Lucky Leak w...

Caloundra trainer Michael Jacobs landed his third metropolitan win, all with the same horse, since being forced to abandon a career as a dentist when Al Mazaya won at Eagle Farm.Al Mazaya, one of s...

A few months ago trainer Pat Carey was saying his Derby winner Ethiopia would not even try for the Melbourne Cup this year. How things change - and quickly. Ethiopia is now one of the major fancies...

High profile breeder and owner Kevin O'Brien is an unabashed fan of the new Toowoomba cushion track.The owner of former glamour sprinting mare Gold Edition, O'Brien said the new surface passed its ...

High profile breeder and owner Kevin O'Brien is an unabashed fan of the new Toowoomba cushion track.The owner of former glamour sprinting mare Gold Edition, O'Brien said the new surface passed its ...