Monkey Town 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...

Randwick's Anzac Day meeting came within one shower of being called off and spoiling the biggest moment in apprentice Sam Clipperton's life.Stewards met with jockeys after the fourth race to discus...

Bjorn Baker got the monkey off his back for his new Sydney operation at Canterbury recently and is hoping to build on that city win at the same track on Wednesday.Earlier this month three-year-old ...

Apprentice Tom Sadler will long remember the cold Wednesday at Sandown in May when he landed his first metropolitan win aboard Lordoftheparrots.Sadler managed to keep the Mike Moroney-trained Lordo...

Trainer Leon Corstens has ended a losing streak to start the New Year with Sneaky Tsu leading all the way to win the Maidstone Handicap at Flemington.Corstens has been searching for a winner since ...

We often hear of foolproof methods of winning money at the races. You know the type of thing: I've got a system, guaranteed to make you a winner, anywhere, anytime! Unlimited profits are usually...