Love Story 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...

First Sight Love  was 10th across the line but still hard to miss at his first run back for a new campaign two weeks ago at Happy Valley, but the Ireland Trophy, over 1,650m at the course tonigh...

Only 9th in the Cox Plate last year - but maybe it will be a different story this year as far as Sincero is concerned? The way he thrashed the Memsie Stakes field at Caulfield signals that he's bac...

The earth moved for Laurence Eales on Tuesday as the former rodeo rider from Cairns claimed a stunning Melbourne Cup win with Shocking.Once Eales' earth moving company EA Hire furnished him with en...

Twelve months ago trainer Shaun Dwyer bypassed the Sydney Cup with Anudjawun because he felt the gelding wasn't ready.It's a different story this time around with Dwyer confident the six-year-old i...

Michael Tubman has Chance Bye trained to the minute for the Golden Slipper but just in case she needs it, she also has the luck of the Irish on her side."My mother's name is Kathleen, my wife's nam...

Michael Tubman has Chance Bye trained to the minute for the Golden Slipper but just in case she needs it, she also has the luck of the Irish on her side."My mother's name is Kathleen, my wife's nam...