Karma Force 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...

GERRY Ryan remains undecided about whether Puissance de Lune will return to the racetrack or go to stud. Ryan said Puissance De Lune would return to Darren Weir’s Ballarat stables within a fortni...

Breeding giant Coolmore showed its support of its stallion Fastnet Rock by securing the top lot on the opening day of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney which got off to a slower than ho...

An impressive jumpout win has the connections of top sprinter Toorak Toff buoyant about his prospects in Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.The Rick Hore-Lacy-trained four-year-...

The team behind the spring cups bid of English contender Mad Rush have likened the stayer to last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Purple Moon.Francesca Cumani said Mad Rush, trained by her father Lu...

Pia Brandt should have more than just visiting European support if she decides to campaign Bathyrhon towards the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup, reports racing.com. The Swedish trainer, who is based...

Do you go to the mounting yard at the races and watch the horses as they walk around before the start of a race? It's surprising how few punters do so. Those that do probably just enjoy looking at...