Jubilant Winner 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...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

The world stage awaits star mare Tuesday Joy following her sparkling comeback to racing in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.The win capped a great day for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also cla...

The world stage awaits star mare Tuesday Joy following her sparkling comeback to racing in the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.The win capped a great day for trainer Gai Waterhouse who also cla...

Gai Waterhouse was bubbling with enthusiasm about Descarado's Cox Plate prospects after he found his best form to lead all the way in the Group One Caulfield Stakes.Her 2010 Caulfield Cup winner ha...