Golden Kiwi 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...

Prince De Beauchene has enhanced his Grand National claims with a dominant victory in the Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse.The Willie Mullins-trained nine-year-old jumped crisply for Paul Townend, befor...

John Singleton made a good point when he asked what would racing be without Gai Waterhouse? The eccentric multi-millionire says: 'Gai is a genius - imagine what racing would be without her!' Person...

Shane Dye has weighed into the whip rules fiasco with a stinging blast at the people who run racing in Australia. He says: '...the people in charge DO NOT listen to the people in the industry who k...

Imagine that you have gathered from my last few columns that I am not an ardent fan of levelstakes betting. I don't see any sense at all in it unless you have a strike rate that's far in excess of...

PPD Club members can access our first long-range tip for the Melbourne Cup by going to the Long Range Betting page. The selection is currently available at around 50/1.After So You Think's Irish Ch...

Having her first start for new trainer Aidan O’Brien, triple Group I winning Australian mare Sea Siren returned to top form overnight to score an easy win in the Listed Belgrave Stakes at Fairyho...