He's Heaven 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...

A horror draw and the tight Doomben track look formidable obstacles for Echoes Of Heaven in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes but trainer Mick Price still feels his colt has some pluses in his favo...

A horror draw and the tight Doomben track look formidable obstacles for Echoes Of Heaven in the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes but trainer Mick Price still feels his colt has some pluses in his favo...

Let me at it again...Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Americain is after the great race again. He'll have another couple of outings in France before being sent back to Australia to attempt to make ...

Peter Moody's stable is enjoying a superb year - and it's not beyond him to land the Caulfield Cup. He's focussed on the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington on Saturday with his import Voila Ici while hi...

AFTER rueing a Group 1 that escaped in Adelaide, Peter Moody will redouble his stocks

When all else is lost ... have a lash at the trifecta! This might well be the thinking of many a desperate punter as he faces a day of losses betting for win and place. Most punters, though - if...