Lidder Valley 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 Robert Smerdon trained filly – Fontiton has drawn barrier 1 and remains the $2.50 favourite for Saturday’s Blue Diamond Stakes.    

 Latest TAB market on the Caulfield Guineas, postdraw:

Unbeaten Samaready is even hotter for Sat's Grp 1 1200m Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield following the barrier draw on Tuesday. The 2yo filly, trained by Mick Price, has drawn gate #8. Betstar has ...

TAB has kept Extreme Choice at $2.80 for Saturday’s Longines Golden Slipper at Rosehill after he came up with barrier 7 at this morning’s draw.   Favourite since winning the Blue Diamond just ov...

Latest TAB prices for Saturday's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, post-draw:

  TAB’s updated Golden Slipper market post barrier draw.   FIELD ORDER   TAB 2015 Golden...