Lady Rufus 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...

A fit and healthy Jim Cassidy is hoping to pick up where he left off when he returns to the saddle at Canterbury on Saturday.Cassidy was hit with a five-week suspension for whip offences shortly af...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

Miss Opulence has the chance to continue Hawkesbury trainer Garry Frazer's winning run with juveniles this season at Randwick on Saturday.The Benicio filly lines up in the Autumn Carnival Package O...

Miss Opulence has the chance to continue Hawkesbury trainer Garry Frazer's winning run with juveniles this season at Randwick on Saturday.The Benicio filly lines up in the Autumn Carnival Package O...

Trainer Robbie Laing says Mazzacano is on target to create history at Sandown on Saturday by becoming the first horse to win The Australian Steeplechase for a third time.The nine-year-old has overc...