Louie the Legend 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...

If Vision And Power wins the Queen Elizabeth Stakes he will be on the short list for Horse of the Year honours, something that makes trainer Joe Pride shake his head in wonder.Pride's admiration fo...

Trainer Joe Pride believes Vision And Power can belie his first-up form and is primed for victory at Rosehill on Saturday.Vision And Power runs in the Night Racing At Canterbury Handicap (1400m), h...

Comeback jockey Jim Cassidy has committed himself to riding Cox Plate hopeful and autumn giant-killer Vision And Power throughout his spring campaign but remains in the dark about his future on Rom...

Comeback jockey Jim Cassidy has committed himself to riding Cox Plate hopeful and autumn giant-killer Vision And Power throughout his spring campaign but remains in the dark about his future on Rom...

Vision And Power will restart his campaign in Saturday's Lord Mayor's Cup with trainer Joe Pride keener than ever to get another Group One victory from the veteran.Pride was devastated when Vision ...

Jim Cassidy continued his remarkable autumn carnival by riding his third Group One winner in as many weeks when Vision And Power claimed the $2 million Doncaster Mile at Randwick.The 46-year-old's ...