Hodgson 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...

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Sydney's wet weather has Scone trainer Luke Griffith looking forward to Saturday's Randwick meeting where he has mudlark With A Chance engaged.Track manager Dave Hodgson said the surface was heavy ...

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Sydney's wet weather has Scone trainer Luke Griffith looking forward to Saturday's Randwick meeting where he has mudlark With A Chance engaged.Track manager Dave Hodgson said the surface was heavy ...

Oh, oh....Sat's Randwick meeting may have to be axed because of rain-affected conditions. The track copped 32mm of rain on Thursday. Track boss Dave Hodgson rated the surface on Friday morning at H...