Hurtle 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...

One trainer not so pleased to see the sun shining in Sydney this week is Matthew Smith.Smith will saddle up Hurtle Myrtle in the Group One Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday w...

Hurtle Myrtle has pleased Matthew Smith in the 48 hours since her Eagle Farm win but her recovery isn't enough to convince the trainer to stray from a two-start Brisbane program.On the back of a we...

Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith is excited about the autumn prospects for talented filly Hurtle Myrtle, the leading light of his stable.The Flight Stakes placegetter took another step towards he...

The Doncaster Mile changed complexion on Thursday with three early scratchings and ongoing uncertainty over whether More Joyous will run.Rekindled Interest, King's Rose and Single have all been wit...

Hurtle Myrtle recently showed leading jockey Blake Shinn she was above average, much to the delight of trainer Matthew Smith.The Warwick Farm horseman believed the filly was something special from ...

Hurtle Myrtle recently showed leading jockey Blake Shinn she was above average, much to the delight of trainer Matthew Smith.The Warwick Farm horseman believed the filly was something special from ...