Incomparable 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...

The  funeral for champion jockey Roy Higgins will be held this Thursday at Flemington, the scene of many of his greatest racing triumphs.  Higgins’ family announced today that the funeral servic...

UNBEATEN superstar Black Caviar will face nine rivals in her South Australian debut on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd at Morphettville. The prospect of taking on the world's best sprinter at...

Peter Moody didn’t rate it Black Caviar’s best win

Glen Boss believes an apparent lack of depth among Australia's weight-for-age middle distance horses can help create spring opportunities for Shamrocker, a prized carnival ride for the leading jock...

My father, a throwback from the Victorian age, was often given to uttering platitudes as though he had just invented them. When my interest in dog-paddling across the treacherous English channel h...

I discussed with Brian the prospects of taking an overall look at what is available, so far as the best racing literature is concerned. We agreed that although we talk every month about specific...