Jack's Jet 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...

WHILE leading jockeys Damien Oliver and Corey Brown yesterday chose not to appeal careless charges incurred on Melbourne Cup day, fellow rider Ben Melham was more fortunate when he had a two-month ...

Jockey  Ben Melham  has been asked by Racing Victoria (RV) stewards to provide his phone records as part of the investigation into the  Baron Archer  betting probe. Melham rode Baron Archer when ...

DISQUALIFIED jockey Danny Nikolic has lodged an appeal with the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal against two decisions made by the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board.

Ben Melham was on Friday suspended for two months at the conclusion of an inquiry into his riding tactics aboard the Tony Vasil-trained Ariarni at Pakenham late last month.Melham was charged with f...

Melbourne jockey Ben Melham is considering an appeal to a higher level over a two-month suspension after the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RADB) dismissed his plea over his handling of a h...

A proposal to limit protest hearings solely to jockeys gained no support at the national steward’s conference, reports Racing Network. Racing Victoria chairman of stewards Terry Bailey, who ran t...