I Smashed That 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...

Lightly-raced stayer The Tiger added bite to next month's Victoria Derby when he led all the way to win Wednesday's Listed Geelong Classic.Trained by Colin and Cindy Alderson, the three-year-old so...

Lee Freedman is hoping Fly Higher can defy a moderate fillies record and give him his second Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.Only six fillies in the last 50 years, including just...

James Quinn is regarded as one of the “greats” of the American handicapping scene. We have chosen his book The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping, Leading Ideas and Methods as one of the 10 best ra...

Exclusive Book Extract Susan Bain is one of America’s leading female punters. She and her husband Ed Bain ( www.edbain.com ) devised the highly successful 4x30 formula, using trainer stats to s...