Instinctual 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...

He has a name similar a comic book superhero (read Black Panther) and a touch of mystique to go with it. He has another type of hero as his owner whose loyalty to his jockey mirrors that of a gr...

All the latest TAB price movers for Sandown and Rosehill on Saturday...

Relaxed And Happy's win in the Canterbury BMW Inglis Bonus saw no change to TAB Sportsbet's Golden Rose market. Wagering Media Officer Andrew Giorgiou told PPD: 'With several horses in the Inglis n...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

I have always held the belief that winning form is good form. And it is – generally speaking! The one thing that is a fact, an unassailable one, is that last-start winning form has to be taken ser...