King William 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...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Not scared off? The presence of superstar Black Caviar has not frightened off the oppositikon for Friday night's Grp 1 William Reid Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. It's attracted 15 entries - cons...

Trainer Mick Price will run True Persuasion in this month's William Reid Stakes but has already conceded the Group One race to champion sprinter Black Caviar.True Persuasion will oppose the runaway...

Trainer David Hayes says the Group One Newmarket Handicap has increasing appeal for his star sprinter Nicconi.Hayes believes the Lightning Stakes winner can bounce back from the disappointment of h...

The Anthony Cummings-trained Turffontein pulled off an upset to land his second Group One victory in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley.The five-year-old entire won the Rupert Clarke Stakes (...