King Of The Air 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...

Plans seem very much up in the air for NZ star Jimmy Choux after his next start in the AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. There's talk he might go straight to stud. There's also talk he'll be at the...

Stephen McKee knows what to expect from grand campaigner King Mufhasa but says the unknown of just how good Atlantic Jewel is makes for an interesting contest in Saturday's All Aged Stakes.King Muf...

Plans for Predatory Pricer are still up in the air with trainer Paul Murray due to hold talks on Tuesday night with the colt's owners to lock in a spring program.The last start Ming Dynasty Quality...

The John Moore-trained Admiration moves into somewhat rarefied air if he can win the Group Three National Day Cup (1,400m) with the top weight at Sha Tin today, but his difficult cause will be assi...

Which horse do we usually look at first in a race? Of course, it's the No 1 horse, in handicaps the horse the handicapper has weighted as being the best-performed in the race. The handicapper's f...

Winning the Shannon Stakes won't be enough to convince trainer Brett Partelle he should deviate from a long-term plan to have Torio's Quest in peak form for an ambitious Melbourne campaign.Torio's ...