Last Samurai 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...

The name Robert Saunders Dowst pops up every now and again whenever I get into detailed discussions about horse racing handicapping, and how to pick winners and avoid losers, and so on. Most peop...

Robert Saunders Dowst is regarded as we of the worlds leading  racing experts. He is legendary for his books about in-depth handicapping and money management his theories  being formulated in the ...

Robert Saunders Dowst, one of America's greatest handicappers of the 1930s and '40s, was never averse to getting away from level-stakes betting. In fact, he was a consistent advocate of progressio...

This is the second and final extract from James Quinn’s best-selling book The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping, Leading Ideas and Methods, which we have chosen as one of the 10 best racing books ...

The legendary Robert Saunders Dowst had a simple but most effective way of analysing form. His writings on the subject of handicapping are still worldwide best-sellers today. Dowst formulated his...

Decades ago, one of the great names in American punting was that of Robert Saunders Dowst. He and colleague Jay Craig came up with many bright and original thoughts on how to win at betting. It's...