Gracie's Secret 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...

Ben Melham could be the jockey to follow in 2011...He's certainly taking dramatic steps forward after that great winning ride on Black Caviar in Melbourne Cup week. After riding a treble at Moonee ...

Hugh Bowman knew next to nothing about Daffodil when he guided the New Zealander to a dominant victory in the AJC Australian Oaks last year.But the top Sydney rider has a much better understanding ...

Hugh Bowman knew next to nothing about Daffodil when he guided the New Zealander to a dominant victory in the AJC Australian Oaks last year.But the top Sydney rider has a much better understanding ...

Trainer Rob Heathcote allowed himself a big smile after punters' nightmare horse Work The Room returned to his best form to win the final winter carnival feature race, the Tattersall's Mile, at Eag...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...