Grecian Storm 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...

Unbeaten Queensland mare Chakvetadze has been sent back to the barrier trials following her antics at Doomben on Saturday before her triumphant return.Chakvetadze extended her winning sequence to s...

Brotherly love overcame sibling rivalry at Doomben on Wednesday when leading apprentice Justin Wood replaced his injured younger brother Mitchell and reaped the rewards.The Wood brothers are enjoyi...

Leading jockey Corey Brown expects Saturday's Group Two Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill to be a cracker.Brown will jump aboard star mare More Joyous for the first time in the absence of her suspended...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown won't be tucking into a big Christmas lunch this year but he could get a belated present if Monaco Consul wins the Group One Zabeel Classic at Ellerslie.Bro...

Plain Magic booked a Brisbane winter carnival campaign after bringing glamour mare Chakvetadze's unbeaten run to a spectacular end at Eagle Farm.Named after her ordinary looks, Plain Magic was ridd...

Plain Magic booked a Brisbane winter carnival campaign after bringing glamour mare Chakvetadze's unbeaten run to a spectacular end at Eagle Farm.Named after her ordinary looks, Plain Magic was ridd...