Just A Duchess 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...

Sure to brighten up the spring carnival? News reports say Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, may be #1 celebrities at this year's Melbourne Cup meeting. The Age says: 'The Prince of Wales and th...

Yet another smash-hit winning day for PPD Club members on Wednesday with tipste r Brian Blackwell maintaining his excellent form.

A truck carrying several of Bart Cummings' Sydney autumn carnival contenders is due to arrive from Melbourne on Monday morning.On the float will be Faint Perfume, Sirmione, Moatize and Rock Classic...

Melbourne Cup winner Viewed and potential Melbourne Cup winner Roman Emperor have returned to Bart Cummings' Sydney stable to begin their spring preparations.Roman Emperor won the AJC Australian De...

Melbourne Cup winner Viewed and potential Melbourne Cup winner Roman Emperor have returned to Bart Cummings' Sydney stable to begin their spring preparations.Roman Emperor won the AJC Australian De...

Meticulous planning has won Bart Cummings 12 Melbourne Cups and preparations are well in hand for number 13 with Precedence.The gelding is already back in residence at Cummings' Melbourne stable an...