Guiding Light 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...

Even before her Victoria Derby triumph on Rebel Raider, Clare Lindop was on a high after watching Moatize win the Saab and earn a start not just for himself but also for her in Tuesday's Melbourne ...

Chris Waller continued an amazing run on his home track with a winning double at Rosehill on Saturday.Waller's double was the 15th consecutive Saturday meeting at Rosehill that he has trained at le...

Last month I began to outline the major steps I take to come up with a set of selections that make me a consistent winner. I wrote that all it requires is: About one-and-a-half hours of your ti...