Lucky With You 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...

Finding a way for diminutive mare Influential Miss to increase her value beyond the racetrack won't be trainer Pat Carey's only focus this week.Mornington-based Carey is weighing up a black-type op...

Midweek trophy races don't come any tougher than the Indian Recreation Club Challenge Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley tonight but a return to firmer ground could be enough to swing the tables the way...

The return of racing to the country Victorian track of Kilmore has been further delayed with its December 20 meeting transferred to Kyneton.The track has been undergoing extensive drainage repairs ...

Trainer Tony Parker has a Flemington feature race double in his sights for lightly-raced five-year-old Command Prince this winter.Geelong-based Parker said the Command Post gelding had benefited fr...

Trainer Tony Parker has a Flemington feature race double in his sights for lightly-raced five-year-old Command Prince this winter.Geelong-based Parker said the Command Post gelding had benefited fr...

Tommy Berry is hoping to get in on the act in the Group One autumn features when he partners the Gai Waterhouse-trained Older Than Time in Saturday's Sydney Cup.Waterhouse's stable has been in stel...