Lucky Blessing 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...

As most of Melbourne woke up to howling winds, the Werribee area certainly wasn’t immune. The usual trackwork kick-off time was delayed by more than an hour due to a section of the course proper ...

Malua Racing is looking at a start for Shezaten in the time-honoured Bagot Handicap following her tenacious victory on her home track at Flemington on Saturday.The four-year-old Handsome Ransom mar...

Melbourne Racing Club will be relying on late entries to boost numbers after only five horses were nominated for the time-honoured Futurity Stakes (1600m).The Group One weight-for-age feature provi...

First-up specialist Tesbury Jack has unexpectedly been saddled with a daunting assignment against Australia's best sprinters Weekend Hussler and Apache Cat in the Australia Stakes after bushfires s...

Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill and his Villiers Stakes contender Hey Elvis have settled into Sydney well this week and are enjoying the hospitality of a person they are both familiar with - horseman...

Melbourne Racing Club will be relying on late entries to boost numbers after only five horses were nominated for the time-honoured Futurity Stakes (1600m).The Group One weight-for-age feature provi...