Lucrative Eight 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...

GERALD Ryan has every reason to look forward with confidence to the new racing season with his Fastnet Rock colt Rothesay, but the Rosehill trainer's lucrative run in major races for the season may...

Trainer Clinton McDonald is planning to have a fun summer with veteran galloper Pacino.McDonald's family owns the eight year-old and he is striking form at the right time after six runs in the spri...

Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Classic might not be a race for the purists but trainer David Payne believes it is a great incentive for owners."It encourages people to buy horses so why not?" Payne sai...

Stakes-placed Houston Benefactor will use a midweek maiden at Canterbury as a stepping stone towards the lucrative Princess Series during the Sydney spring carnival.The three-year-old returns from ...

Lightly-raced stakeswinner Hanks is laying the foundation for what trainer Peter Moody hopes will be a lucrative autumn carnival for the four-year-old.High hopes have always been held for the geldi...

The curtain may have closed on the Sydney carnival but there will be plenty of interest in the Rowley Mile program at Hawkesbury.In-form trainer John O'Shea is among those planning to target the st...