Great Promise 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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNTRAVINO2c : Trainer : Peter McKay4 starts : 2 winsWin distance range : 1000m - 1100mTrack conditions won on : Good : DeadExciting 2-year-old who should develop into a top notch 3-...

THIS IS EVEN HARDER!Winning is hard.Damned hard.But making it more difficult for yourself is very easy.Just bet midweek.That'll do it, I promise.At present I'm looking at Warrnambool's biggest day....

WHILE tomorrow's Blue Diamond Stakes Previews at Caulfield promise to give a valuable insight into the stocks of the top two-year-olds, the Zeditave Stakes for horses a year older appears to hold j...

Glen Boss delivered on his pledge to provide the Rebel Dane team with a Group 1 success when he partnered the four-year-old to victory in Saturday’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. The champion jockey ...

Trainer Steve O'Dea hopes stud failure Bianca Jewel can rediscover her early promise when the four-year-old makes her comeback at Eagle Farm.Bianca Jewel, who lines up in Saturday's Lyndhurst Stud ...

from RACING POST HKPunters have been left with worthless tickets on John Moore's Zaidan in his last two starts, but he can make amends in the Sha Tin Mile Trophy (1,600m) today. Jockey Darren Beadm...