Lucky Pick 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...

Trainer Tony Vasil wants to take Kevin Heffernan Stakes winner Lucky Secret overseas, with New Zealand, Dubai and England his favoured options.The Rubiton six-year-old made it 14 wins from 23 start...

Memories of 1973 Stradbroke Handicap winner Lucky Cloud were revived when trainer Graham Banks broke a six-year drought at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Banks, who trains at Oakey on the Darling Downs we...

Peter Snowden believes the class of Retrieve makes the colt his best chance to win a second Group One Spring Champion Stakes on Saturday.Snowden appears to have a stranglehold on the feature 2000m ...

Veteran gelding Canary Islands' first win for three years was cause for celebration in more ways than one.They eight-year-old's victory in Wednesday's Champagne Bar Handicap (1550m) at Randwick bro...

Promising four-year-old Vigor is Perth-bound after racking up two consecutive wins at Flemington.Trainer Danny O'Brien said he had plenty of options for the O'Reilly gelding in the west including t...

Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...