Little Bubbles 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...

There is likely to be at least one moment during the HK$10 million Chairman's Sprint Prize where it looks like  Chautauqua  can't win, but that is nothing new and the big-striding grey's booming f...

Queensland filly Military Rose is the new favourite for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper after an afternoon of juvenile racing that raised more questions than it answered.The Magic Millions winner d...

Queensland filly Military Rose is the new favourite for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper after an afternoon of juvenile racing that raised more questions than it answered.The Magic Millions winner d...

Queensland filly Military Rose is the new favourite for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper after an afternoon of juvenile racing that raised more questions than it answered.The Magic Millions winner d...

In this final article in my PPM series, I will complete the picture of the horse and put some colour into the image I've been building by stepping back a little and taking in the whole scene of th...

How smart is the betting public? There are conflicting views on this question. In recent years, the claim has been advanced that the 'crowd' is smart, that it gets it more right, or close to right...