Imperial State 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...

Local star Southern Speed is favorite at $2.70 (7/4) for Sat's Australasian Oaks at Morphettville, SA, though she's being pressed by Lights of Heaven on the second line at $3.10. Southern Speed ran...

Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed will soon be back in action...She kicks off an autumn campaign at the Australia Day meeting at Caulfield next week. But connections are not expecting first-up fi...

A GENUINE challenger for super mare Black Caviar may have emerged when the Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed made a triumphant return to the track in the John Dillon Stakes at Caulfield yesterday...

LEE Freedman is confident he can revive the fortunes of last year's one-time Caulfield and Melbourne cups favourite Speed Gifted, believing the hot autumn weather was the horse's undoing when last ...

Clare Lindop is maintaining her faith in Southern Speed despite the filly's defeat in Sat's Australian Guineas 1600m at Flemington. SS got back early and picked up late ground for 7th to Shamrocker...

Racing Victoria's chief handicapper Greg Carpenter has penalised Speed Gifted 2kgs for the Caulfield Cup following his powerful victory in the AJC Metrop. The latest market has him the ruling fav a...