Might Be Magic 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...

QUEENSLAND'S big wet may be a grave concern to Magic Millions officials six days out from the state's richest race day, but not so for Caulfield trainer Tony Vasil and his three-year-old colt Inten...

Colourful owner John Singleton had one simple instruction for Clarry Conners."When he gave me the horse he said, `I want her to win the Magic Millions. If you win the Slipper too that's OK but win ...

Retirement doesn't suit everyone, horses included, and stakeswinner Magic Marvo is set for a return to racing after rebelling against the quiet life.Trainer Rod Craig, whose wife Lynn is a part-own...

Retirement doesn't suit everyone, horses included, and stakeswinner Magic Marvo is set for a return to racing after rebelling against the quiet life.Trainer Rod Craig, whose wife Lynn is a part-own...

Trainer Gillian Heinrich will roll the dice again in a bid to secure her third starter for next month's $2 million Magic Millions Classic with stablemates Lord Lonhro and Pure Reality at Doomben.He...

Stathi Katsidis is adamant he has found the right horse to give him his first Magic Millions victory after he lifted Military Rose to a breathtaking win in the Listed BJ McLachlan Stakes at Doomben...