Midnight Rush 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...

The big money came for several runners but mostly it was off the mark early on Saturday. In race 1 at Caulfield, all the cash was for Plucky Belle but it was nabbed in the closing stages by And Roc...

High class mare Ortensia has begun her spring carnival build-up in Queensland and will return to full training by the end of the month.The Tony Noonan-prepared Group Two winner has been enjoying th...

High class mare Ortensia has begun her spring carnival build-up in Queensland and will return to full training by the end of the month.The Tony Noonan-prepared Group Two winner has been enjoying th...

High class mare Ortensia has begun her spring carnival build-up in Queensland and will return to full training by the end of the month.The Tony Noonan-prepared Group Two winner has been enjoying th...

Many punters who don't have the time, or the inclination, to go through the sometimes challenging process of drawing up a priceline on a race, might like to consider the approach of a friend of mi...

This is the final part of an article on the psychology of punting by Barry Meadow, the respected US handicapper. A winner doesn't worry about setbacks, knowing that nobody's improvement is ever s...