Highland George 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...

William Hill Cox Plate invitee  Highland Reel  benefitted from a  Ryan Moore  masterclass to make all and provide trainer  Aidan O’Brien  with a fourth success in King George VI And Queen Elizabet...

Irish trainer  Aidan O’Brien  added another chapter to his already remarkable career when he trained the first three across the line in Europe’s premier race, the Group 1 Arc de Triomphe at Chanti...

The Tatts W.S Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 weight-for-age championship thoroughbred. Held annually at Moonee Valley Racing club in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest races of the Spring Rac...

A veteran middle-distance galloper with a penchant for sprinting well fresh and a rookie jumper cast adrift by his owner represent trainer Doug Harrison's bid for a feature double on the second day...