Monfaretto 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...

Here we go again? Pacemaker supremo Aidan O'Brien may be returning to Australia for another crack at the Melbourne spring carnival. Aidan really made an impact last time he was here. Remember the c...

Dual Cox Plate winner So You Think put in an eye-catching track gallop at the Curragh on Sunday, winning the workout against two of his Aidan O'Brien-trained stablemates.Coolmore cemented a majorit...

Leading Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien will make his first visit to Australia in six years, with lightly raced colt Adelaide to start in the Cox Plate. Coolmore racing manager James Bester said O...

Master trainer Aidan O'Brien's teenage son Joseph will ride Byzantine, one of his father's seven runners in the Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday.Byzantine is a rank outsider at 500-1 with some ...

Master trainer Aidan O'Brien's teenage son Joseph will ride Byzantine, one of his father's seven runners in the Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday.Byzantine is a rank outsider at 500-1 with some ...

Master trainer Aidan O'Brien's teenage son Joseph will ride Byzantine, one of his father's seven runners in the Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday.Byzantine is a rank outsider at 500-1 with some ...