Mishani Phoenix 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...

Big change...Will Americain finally get a 10-out-of-10 ride when he tackles the Grp 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2000m at Randwick on Sat week? Could be. Trainer David Hayes has booked Craig Williams f...

 Earlybird price changes for Caulfield and Randwick on Saturday

TAB's latest price changes and big bets for Saturday's racing

If racing was only about the best looking horses winning, Rain Affair would be an outsider - and not the warm favourite - to win the Missile Stakes.Luckily for the Rain Affair camp racing doesn't d...

The $1.025 million half-brother to superstar sprinter Black Caviar is among a bumper list of entries for next year's Golden Slipper.Australian Turf Club officials are still finalising exact numbers...

The star attraction at Sydney's Easter Sale lived up to her billing with Black Caviar's half sister fetching a sale high $2.6 million on Wednesday.BC3 Thoroughbreds won a bidding duel to secure the...