Master Lucky 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...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

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...

Apprentice Sam Clipperton made the most of a late pick-up ride to land his first stakes victory at Rosehill on Saturday and fittingly it was aboard Monton trained by his master Ron Quinton.A former...