Hasta La Silver 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...

Black And Bent will have four more jumps races this campaign including a crack at the Grand National Hurdle-Grand National Steeplechase double.Managing part-owner Mike Symons outlined the remaining...

Robbie Laing, who has been feted for two great training performances so far this year, will be at it again on Sunday when he attempts to win the Grand National Hurdle-Grand National Steeplechase do...

Overnight betting on the Galleywood Hurdle 3200m at Warrnambool on Wednesday has Black And Bent the early fav at $4.20 (13/4), according to the market from TAB Sportsbet. Black And Bent is trained ...

Exciting two-year-old Turf Express has continued his winning ways at Randwick with trainer Gai Waterhouse keeping close tabs on proceedings from the Galapagos Islands.Waterhouse was not letting her...

The revamped Grand National program has been condensed from two days to one, shifted from Flemington to Sandown and held a couple of months later, but jumps racing participants such as co-trainers ...

The revamped Grand National program has been condensed from two days to one, shifted from Flemington to Sandown and held a couple of months later, but jumps racing participants such as co-trainers ...