Hammurabi 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...

Boban will enter the Memsie Stakes as the horse to beat, with TAB opening the Group One winner as the $6.00 favourite ahead of Temple Of Boom ($8.00) and Weary ($8.00). Rising Romance ($10), Se...

Boban has firmed in from $6.00 to $4.80 with TAB for the Memsie Stakes after drawing barrier five on Wednesday. Volkstok ‘n’ barrell has also been a big mover since the m arket opened Mon day...

Black Caviar has turned on a turbo-charged performance in an 800m jumpout at Caulfield. She streaked away, prompting Peter Moody's racing manager Jeff O'Connor to say that the mare had her 'superhe...

There are a few things, only a few, in this life that can be reasonably counted on. I know that's not a new perspective, and the ones we usually hear about are death and taxes. But racing also h...

How much of a losing run can you expect when you make a series of bets? In this article Garry Robinson talks to a mathematician who has examined all aspects of this vital betting factor. GR: (Gar...

Black Caviar will face only four rivals when she goes for her 15th straight win in Saturday's Group Two Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley.The reigning Horse of the Year will meet 2008-09 Horse of t...