Little Riggall 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...

Moonee Valley JRA Cup winner Precedence has been given a 1.5kgs penalty for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The penalty has lifted Precedence's weight in both races to 52kgs and elevates him to 3...

The Paul Perry-trained Newport, who won The Metropolitan last Saturday, has been penalised 1.5kg for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.Racing Victoria Limited chief handicapper Greg Carpenter on Mon...

MONGOLIAN Khan’s chances of becoming the 12 th  horse to win the Caulfield Cup – Melbourne Cup double have been boosted today following only a 1kg penalty. The stayer firmed from $7.00 into $6....

Sertorius tops the weights for Wednesday's Geelong Cup:

First Acceptances for the AAMI Stradbroke Handicap2 BUFFERING 4G (Robert Heathcote) 57.03 TEMPLE OF BOOM 5G (Tony Gollan) 56.04 PINWHEEL 6G (Peter Snowden) 55.06 HAPPY ZERO 7G ( Michael, Wayne & Jo...

Americain has been given topweight of 58kg in his bid to become just the fifth horse to win back-to-back Emirates Melbourne Cups.The all-important weights for 'the race that stops a nation', to be ...