Impossible Dream 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...

Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander is not convinced So You Think can win the Melbourne Cup. In his column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, daring Kenny says: 'I have been around a long time and see...

When it comes to predicting the Melbourne Cup winner, it's hard to go past the Geelong Cup.Where previously the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double had been an impossible dream, the Europeans have for...

Jockey Peter Wells says Barlagarney usually has about three good runs a preparation and believes the signs are promising that he has at least one more big race in him ahead of Wednesday's Listed Go...

Jockey Peter Wells says Barlagarney usually has about three good runs a preparation and believes the signs are promising that he has at least one more big race in him ahead of Wednesday's Listed Go...

Underrated stayer Cedarberg is set to give trainer Pat Carey his second home town Cup win in four years at Mornington.Carey, who said he "fluked" winning the 2008 Mornington Cup (2400m) with Attrit...

There are many who say winning is impossible when you bet at the races. They are absolutely right if you apply the claim to each individual punter, because the sad truth is, as we have explained b...