Hard Landing 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...

Surprise package Landing will spearhead trainer Gai Waterhouse's assault on the feature races at Hawkesbury's showpiece meeting on Saturday.Waterhouse was the dominant force during the Sydney autum...

From MURRAY BELL in HK Racing PostCaspar Fownes describes himself as a competitive person by nature, but the energy and focus he put into landing his second trainers' premiership was real eye-of-th...

Noel Mayfield-Smith prepared the first winner at a Hawkesbury stand-alone Saturday meeting and now hopes to land one of the feature races on the provincial club's showpiece day.Mayfield-Smith will ...

Trainer John Sadler will take steps to ensure Heidilicious is on her best barrier behaviour for the Queensland Oaks and is confident of landing his first Group One since returning to training in hi...

Former New Zealand stayer Maythehorsebemagic showed he would be a force in next month's Warrnambool Cup after landing a betting plunge at his Australian debut at Caulfield.The seven-year-old joined...

Former champion Zealand jockey Lisa Cropp says she's here for the long haul after landing her fourth metropolitan winner in two days with a treble at Sandown.Cropp won Saturday's opening event on G...