Golden Lining 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...

Big Memsie Stakes looms...There's a likely crackerjack field lining up for Sat's Grp 2 race at Caulfield. Melbourne Cup winner Efficient heads the noms. He's only raced once since last year's Turnb...

Lee Freedman will dispense with an elastic girth on Essaouira to insure against a repeat of her rodeo performance when she steps up her Golden Slipper Stakes campaign in Sydney.Essaouira was ordere...

Lee Freedman will dispense with an elastic girth on Essaouira to insure against a repeat of her rodeo performance when she steps up her Golden Slipper Stakes campaign in Sydney.Essaouira was ordere...

Would you follow the lead if you saw an owner have a very large bet on one of his horses? I am of the belief that most punters would consider this a tip of the highest order and would reach into th...

Clarry Conners hasn't had to look far for inspiration recently, it's virtually been on the doorstep of his Warwick Farm stables.The four-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer's eldest son Marc, whose...

Clarry Conners hasn't had to look far for inspiration recently, it's virtually been on the doorstep of his Warwick Farm stables.The four-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer's eldest son Marc, whose...