Line Of Fire 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...

North Queensland journeyman Darryl Hansen will travel virtually anywhere to win a race and come Saturday he will go in search of his biggest career victory in the $200,000 Bernborough Handicap (163...

So You Think remains the dominant favourite for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup but Maluckyday was the buzz horse at the Call of the Card in Melbourne where he was backed to win more than $1 million.Maluck...

The last time trainer Grahame Begg saddled up a Cox Plate starter, young jockey Brenton Avdulla had never even ridden a horse.Avdulla has taken major steps in his riding career in the past two year...

Two decades after training his first Group One placegetter in the Galaxy, Darren Smith finally went one better when Atomic Force raced away with the feature sprint at Randwick.Atomic Force revelled...

Trainer Shaun Dwyer is confident his stable's fortunes are on the rise following a recent form slump and is confident of landing a treble at Doomben on Wednesday."Things are starting to pick up and...

As a wizened Englishman named Mick has been heard to sing, 'Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste'. And a man of wealth and taste I am, of course, if wealth is measured...