Just As Sweet 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...

Sweet Idea will get the opportunity to avenge her narrow defeat in the Magic Millions carnival as a two-year-old in the $1 million Guineas in three weeks after a strong win first-up at Wyong on T...

KARUTA Queen will run in the Black Opal Stakes, Defiant Dame starts in the Sweet Embrace Stakes, and there are some tough decisions still to be made for at least another nine juveniles, reports Ray...

T he  Gai  Waterhouse-trained Sweet Idea  has drifted after drawing wide in  Saturday’s Gold Coast Magic  Millions Three-Year-Old Guineas.

Simon Zahra declared exciting two-year-old Sweet Little Lies had improved and was ready for her campaign-defining test in the Blue Diamond Preview at Caulfield.By Elusive Quality, who sired last ye...

Bossy takes a holiday...Glen Boss will not appeal against the offbeat suspension he copped at Caulfield last Saturday. He was suspended for 10 meetings under the rare provision of 'failing to have ...

Spring carnival riches await promising filly Sweet Ella who surprised trainer Greg Eurell with the ease of her win at Sandown on Wednesday.The two-year-old daughter of Niello was coming off an easy...