Hold The Gold 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...

Unbeaten Queensland filly Paprika has strengthened her hold on the $2 million Magic Millions Classic with her fourth and most impressive victory.The Liam Birchley-trained two-year-old stretched out...

Trainer Mark Riley says last week's Rupert Clarke Stakes casualty Gold Salute is lucky to have the chance to resurrect his spring campaign.On Sunday the six-year-old returns to Caulfield in the Zam...

Sydney sprinter Gold Trail's Group One win at Ellerslie has failed to convince New Zealand punters he can repeat the dose later this month.The NZ TAB has Gold Trail on the fourth line of betting fo...

Sydney sprinter Gold Trail's Group One win at Ellerslie has failed to convince New Zealand punters he can repeat the dose later this month.The NZ TAB has Gold Trail on the fourth line of betting fo...

I don't mind progress, it's change I don't like...Racing Victoria has approved the state's first race to be run in the clockwise direction for more than 60 years. It'll be held at Ballarat - on beh...

It won’t be as early as first planned, but Victorian racing fans will at least get to see star colt  Rich Enuff  in action during the Relaxed Racing period, reports Racing Victoria. The $1 millio...