Got To Be Dancing 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...

Trainer David Hayes has been searching for a topline sprinter since his return from Hong Kong four years ago and on Saturday at Randwick he found what he was looking for when Nicconi streeted his r...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

Kevin Moses is in the process of rebuilding his Randwick stable and looking to Mr Unforgettable to get the ball rolling at Rosehill on Saturday.A couple of months ago, Moses was left with just 18 h...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club is comfortable with its efforts to achieve transparency in bloodstock dealings despite the strong penalties meted out in Australia in the past 10 days over two hors...

Wyong trainer Brett Partelle showed how to turn a $15,000 investment into a half-million dollar profit when Torio's Quest scored a big win in the Magic Million Guineas at the Gold Coast.Torio's Que...