I Am Gone 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...

Champion jumps jockey Tony McCoy says he hopes to be back riding in days rather than weeks although he concedes his chances of riding a record 300 winners this season has gone.McCoy suffered fractu...

Although I have dabbled in the exotics in the past I have made it a bit of a mission to become much wiser in this area in 2010 and beyond, especially with trifectas and first fours. Over the Spring...

RANGIRANGDOO will be given the chance to break his Group One hoodoo in the Ranvet Stakes this Saturday, setting up a return bout with Theseo at Rosehill, reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph.It says:...

A last-minute decision to run Break Card at Randwick paid off when the filly made up for her disappointing effort last start to score a decisive win.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he waited until after 7...

A last-minute decision to run Break Card at Randwick paid off when the filly made up for her disappointing effort last start to score a decisive win.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he waited until after 7...

A last-minute decision to run Break Card at Randwick paid off when the filly made up for her disappointing effort last start to score a decisive win.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he waited until after 7...