Monsun Soldier 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...

Robert Smerdon, who almost sacked Cabazon as a two-year-old, was rewarded for a change of heart when she won the Strutt Stakes at Elwick in Hobart.Smerdon said he had all but given up on the daught...

Robert Smerdon, who almost sacked Cabazon as a two-year-old, was rewarded for a change of heart when she won the Strutt Stakes at Elwick in Hobart.Smerdon said he had all but given up on the daught...

Rockhampton Cup winner Regal Castanea will start in the Toowoomba Cup against the wishes of trainer Ron Macrae.Macrae was infuriated when Regal Castanea received 58 kilograms for Saturday's 2100-me...

Rockhampton Cup winner Regal Castanea will start in the Toowoomba Cup against the wishes of trainer Ron Macrae.Macrae was infuriated when Regal Castanea received 58 kilograms for Saturday's 2100-me...

Punters who lost their dough when stewards made that incredible decision to 'sack' Marden from first place at Rosehill are not the only ones scratching their heads. Jockey Peter Robl was absolutely...

Stephen Farley's decision to concentrate on Melbourne with Sincero this year paid immediate dividends when the tough gelding claimed Saturday's New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulf...