Hand Me Down 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...

Here he blows...Only weeks after being retired, Toorak Toff is back in the business of racing! The 'wind' problem that triggered his sudden departure is believed to have cleared up and now the Grp...

Bauer bounces back...Surprise of the week is the news that 2008 Melbourne Cup runner-up Bauer is on the comeback trail -- and there's a good chanhce he'll run in this year's Cup. A tendon injury en...

Pay Me earned himself a trip to Sydney when he scored an impressive staying win at Eagle Farm Saturday.Pay Me ($3.90) was rewarded for his consistency when he steamed down the centre of the track t...

He has just one local victory and has been maligned even by those close to him as lacking a competitive will, but Let Me Fight gets his opportunity to prove his doubters wrong in the Happy Valley T...

WAS THAT ME?Vigor's $26 for the Caulfield Cup collapsed late last week. I just wondered whether or not it was down to my comments here. Probably not, and probably a weenie bit immodest, but then he...

Trainer Trevor Whittington believes a $6000 investment made 13 years ago by owner Warren Roper can reap rich rewards during the upcoming Brisbane winter carnival.Roper outlaid the money for a Canad...