Hard Enough 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...

Big shock of the day - superstar All Too Hard's race morning scratching from Sat's Australian Guineas due to an elevated temperature. Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes says ATH simply had a cold, and it was...

The talented but erratic Hard Liquor will be out to enhance his Villiers Stakes prospects when he shoots for back-to-back city wins on Saturday.The four-year-old was described by Anthony Cummings' ...

Find all the excuses you like - but boom galloper All Too Hard was disappointing at Rosehill on Saturday. His jockey Dwayne Dunn was big enough to admit it. He says he was entitled to run home bett...

Twelve months after Black Caviar was the toast of Derby day at Randwick, little brother All Too Hard will chase his own slice of the Sydney carnival pie.Black Caviar was at her brilliant best when ...

There are some horses you have to sneak up on and back them before they know you have backed them. This type of horse has Superman's x-ray vision because when they see you have backed them they bec...

VINERY Stud general manager Peter Orton is happy for All Too Hard to be known as Black Caviar's little brother and is content for him to remain in her shadow, reports The Age.It says: But he is qui...