Hexed 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 trip to Australia is on the agenda for New Zealand Oaks winner Midnight Oil but Queensland is likely to win out over Sydney.Trainer Paul Duncan said the Queensland Oaks on June 4 was the more fav...

Drama unfolded at Warwick Farm on Tuesday when jockeys and stewards inspected the track after Corey Brown and Daniel Ganderton's mounts fell in the second race on the card.Brown's mount Viva Las fe...

JOCKEY Daniel Stackhouse enhanced his reputation at Moonee Valley yesterday - perhaps enough to become recognisable on Victorian racetracks, reports the Melbourne Herald-Sun.It says: But at Echuca...

A photo-finish that had punters confused at Randwick on Wednesday was an even bigger headache for stewards who were forced to declare a dead-heat because of the quality of the picture.Racing NSW ch...

There was drama aplenty before, during and after Wednesday's Group Three Launceston Cup won by the Anthony Cummings-trained Zavite who led most of the way.On the way to the course Zavite played up ...

There was drama aplenty before, during and after Wednesday's Group Three Launceston Cup won by the Anthony Cummings-trained Zavite who led most of the way.On the way to the course Zavite played up ...