Maidoff 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...

Veteran galloper Danzylum has won his second Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington while the partner of one of his owners was trying to save 70 horses in the flooded town of Rochester.Janet Gaist w...

A change in training routine and some new gear have transformed By The Way, an injury-prone galloper chasing a maiden black type win at Flemington on Saturday.By The Way will line up in perfect hea...

WITH more than 1000 thoroughbreds on his books, you'd think that retail magnate Gerry Harvey's enthusiasm for anything less than a valuable group race win would have been dulled over the years. But...

James Winks, back riding again for the Danny O'Brien stable, pulled off an upset win aboard At The Heads over the previously unbeaten three-year-old Pied A Terre in the Listed Chester Manifold Stak...

HE MIGHT not yet have the aura of celebrated stablemates, but unbeaten Darley three-year-old Pied A Terre is likely to take another step up in class when he takes on the older horses in the Chester...

Smart sprinter First Command broke through for his first win in just over a year when he gave Steven Arnold back-to-back wins in the Kensington Stakes at Flemington.Arnold, who won the Listed 1000m...