Kieffer 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...

Artlee, the runaway winner of the Country Championship final at Royal Randwick, will resume from a short break in the Listed $140,000 Luskin Star Stakes (1300m) at Scone’s standalone Saturday meet...

Memories of 1973 Stradbroke Handicap winner Lucky Cloud were revived when trainer Graham Banks broke a six-year drought at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Banks, who trains at Oakey on the Darling Downs we...

Mark Kavanagh is after his second Easter Cup win in the last three runnings of the Group Three event with recent stable acquisition Raffaello at Caulfield on Saturday.The Flemington trainer won the...

This is about the time of year that racing fans start to get a little bit excited about the impending Spring Racing Carnival.  Most of the local horses being set for the feature races in Melbour...