He's Electric 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...

Gavin Andrews believes Electric Hatter is racing like a horse more than half his age and the trainer is so impressed he is eyeing off a crack at the Adelaide Cup.The nine-year-old is nominated for ...

Trainer John Sadler admits he is astounded by the improvement made by Flat Chat who completed a hat-trick of city wins at Moonee Valley.The Giant's Causeway five-year-old was sent out a $1.70 favou...

Jockey Kerrin McEvoy was forced to throw race tactics out the window but it wasn't enough to stop Killian posting a tradesman-like win in the opening event at Rosehill.Trainer Peter Snowden had hop...

Jockey Kerrin McEvoy was forced to throw race tactics out the window but it wasn't enough to stop Killian posting a tradesman-like win in the opening event at Rosehill.Trainer Peter Snowden had hop...

Moe trainer Peter Gelagotis is upbeat following the final serious gallop by his Victoria Derby hope Hvasstan on Tuesday. Hvasstan turned in what Gelagotis says was ''top quality'' work. He says: ''...

The weather in two states will determine Joe Pride's chances of stakes success this weekend.The Warwick Farm trainer has entered talented filly Electric Dreams in the Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m)...