Gunnabeready 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...

Yankee doodle dandy? Sanagas, rated the best turf stayer in the US, has been bought by BC3 Thoroughbreds and will be aimed at the 2012 Melbourne Cup. The German-bred 5YO gelding has won seven of hi...

Chris Waller is pushing for the Sydney Cup

Chris Waller's success with imported stayers could result in its biggest pay day in Saturday's Sydney Cup.Hawk Island's effort under 61 kilograms to win the JRA Plate in heavy conditions on Saturda...

It was the end of an era at Randwick on Saturday when former jockey and long-time trainer Bob Thomsen saddled up his last runners.Thomsen, who has prepared the likes of Group One winners Slight Cha...

Time is running out for Sydney Cup entry The Patriot to confirm his credentials for a start in next month's staying feature."I threw him in the nominations as a precaution to see if he can take the...

Are connections really serious about a Melbourne Cup bid by jumps star Black And Bent? He won in strong fashion at Warrnambool on Sunday but it's stretching the elastic to suggest he can win our gr...