Impending Charm 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...

Look out for Sandown Guineas winner So Swift in the New Year. He's having a spell right now but trainers Bill and Symon Wilde have earmakred a key target for him in 2012 - the South Australian Derb...

Quality galloper Swift Alliance's history of rebounding strongly from a heavy Melbourne defeat will be put to the test once more at Randwick on Saturday.Melbourne has provided three blemishes on Sw...

The  John Size-trained  Swift Shadow has been knocking at the door for his first local victory and gets an ideal chance to make the breakthrough in the Tung Wah Group Of Hospitals Challenge Cup ...

James Cummings says his grandfather's renowned sense of timing is a far better guide than the pre-post odds being offered about Swift Judgement at Randwick on Saturday.Swift Judgement steps out for...

A horse who nearly severed his hind legs as a juvenile has emerged as an Australian Guineas prospect for Weekend Hussler's trainer Ross McDonald.Stravinsky gelding Swift Bay still bears the scars o...

Sandown Guineas winner So Swift will kick off an autumn campaign ultimately aimed at the South Australian Derby in May when he resumes in Saturday's $90,000 Bendigo Guineas.Warrnambool trainer Symo...