Lavreysen 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...

Took 'em long enough...Top mare Ortensia has been stripped of her autumn Grp 1 win in The Galaxy at Randwick. Racing NSW stewards disqualified Ortensia because of a positive sample to Ractopamine, ...

MORE BIG TIMES A-COMIN'After the Blue Diamond and the sad demise of Newmarket Day, we'll get the Guineas and the Australian Cup on Saturday then all our attention will switch north.Randwick has som...

A wide range of tickets and entertainment packages have gone on sale for the eight weeks of Sydney’s world class racing next autumn. The Australian Turf Club yesterday launched its ticket platfor...

A Group One winner who wouldn't be out of place among the stars during the Victoria Derby meeting will return to Sydney racing on Saturday.Dynamic Syndications' headline act Atomic Force is a confi...

A SMALL ANALYSIS OF A BIG TOPICWell the basic analysis didn't disgrace itself.The barriers wrecked a potentially superb field.I suggested that you needed to find the best (or best treated) amongst ...

Gary Portelli is keeping an open mind about the immediate future of Gold Trail as he looks for a form turnaround from the Group One sprinter in the Starlight Stakes."We are not writing him off yet,...