Huddy's Turn 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...

Bad luck for Michael Rodd...He's broken a wrist and is likely to be out of action for at least 6 weeks. And that's the optimistic forecast. Rodd damaged the wrist in a fall on his return to trackwo...

We now know why December Draw failed so badly in the Caulfield Cup - and it's all bad news. Trainer Mark Kavanagh has told stewards that DD has been diagnosed with a fracture to the lateral splint ...

Talented hoop  Chad Schofield  is expected to be in hospital “for some time” following a nasty fall which resulted in suspected fractures to both arms at  G eelong on Sunday . The 20-year-old wa...

December Draw's Caulfield Cup failure has been explained by a fracture in one of the horse's hind legs.The Mark Kavanagh-trained December Draw was favourite for Saturday's Caulfield Cup won by Sou...

Good decision by Greg Eurell to end Apache Cat's racing career. The great sprinter was racing below his best when he suffered that injury at Sha Tin last Sunday. GE says: 'He has a small fracture a...

Racing Victoria CEO Rob Hines warned that jumps racing in the state could be doomed if fatalities kept occurring at their current rate following the death of Pride Of Westbury in the Galleywood Hur...