High Tempo 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...

Former Northern Territory speedster The Soldier has recovered from a setback and will run in Saturday's Red Tempo Handicap at Flemington.The eight-year-old was to have his second start for Caulfiel...

It isn't often that picking up the ride on a two-time Horse of the Year could be called a thankless task but that's what in-form jockey Zac Purton may have ahead of him in the Group Two Oriental Wa...

WHILE tomorrow's Blue Diamond Stakes Previews at Caulfield promise to give a valuable insight into the stocks of the top two-year-olds, the Zeditave Stakes for horses a year older appears to hold j...

Champion trainer John Size doesn't call on Brett Prebble too often 

Ambitious Dragon tossed aside some history in winning the Derby in March and he can repeat the dose in the HK$14 million Audemars Piguet QE II Cup at Sha Tin today. In what shapes as an all-Tony fi...

From RACING POST HKJohn Moore has owned the HK$8 million Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup in recent times and the leading trainer is in the driver's seat again this afternoon, with expensive import Iria...