Irish Slipper 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...

Clarry Conners' Golden Slipper stocks were boosted at Randwick on Wednesday with Irish Times and Seven Fly Seven running one-two on debut to begin their journey towards the $3.5 million race.Stable...

Michael Tubman has Chance Bye trained to the minute for the Golden Slipper but just in case she needs it, she also has the luck of the Irish on her side."My mother's name is Kathleen, my wife's nam...

Michael Tubman has Chance Bye trained to the minute for the Golden Slipper but just in case she needs it, she also has the luck of the Irish on her side."My mother's name is Kathleen, my wife's nam...

The push towards a fifth Golden Slipper continues at Canterbury on Wednesday for trainer Clarry Conners when Suzanne and Gunhilda put their credentials on the line.Last week Irish Times and Seven F...

A good barrier and a good track are all trainer Gerald Ryan wants for Melito when she takes on boom filly Irish Lights in the Thousand Guineas.If she gets conditions to suit, Ryan believes can lowe...

A gelding operation has made a marked difference to two-year-old Hot Snitzel, renewing trainer Gerald Ryan's Golden Slipper aspirations.Hot Snitzel has been entered for Saturday's Skyline Stakes at...