Looks Like A Lady 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...

It's a blow...Top NZ stayer Scarlett Lady is OUT of the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups following the discovery of bone chips in her knees. Owner Max Whitby says: 'She got checked in the Underwood and...

Bound for Australia? The Steve McKee trained filly Pussy Willow looks like a readymade Kiwi challenger for Oz spoils. She landed the biggest two-year-old prize of the season so far in NZ when she ...

Stakeswinner M'Lady Pedrille is a definite Randwick starter but the calibre of Brian Crowley Stakes nominations has Ron Quinton undecided which race the filly will contest.M'Lady Pedrille is nomina...

Trainer John Sadler believes Scarlett Lady's absence from the Group One Queensland Derby won't make Heidilicious' chances of victory any easier at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Sadler believes the Graeme ...

Trainer Rob Heathcote may sacrifice a Group One Queensland Oaks start with Fillydelphia at Eagle Farm next week in favour of the Queensland Derby on June 11.Heathcote has not nominated Fillydelphia...

The former Frenchman Pornichet heads to the Doncaster now in winning form, writes Gai Waterhouse at www.gaiwaterhouse.com.au.   She says: The entire made the quantum leap on Saturday and he won ...