Montagna 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...

John O'Shea says he has no reason to complain about the Stradbroke Handicap weight for BTC Cup winner Sea Siren.Sea Siren was given 52.5kg when handicaps for the $1 million sprint where released on...

Hobby trainer Jeff Caught has no intention of throwing in his fulltime job as a draftsman despite the deeds of his highly-promising three-year-old Falino.Caught, 43, moved from north Queensland to ...

Melito may get her chance to turn the tables on All-Aged Stakes winner Hot Danish in next month's Group One Doomben 10,000, but a bigger prize awaits the Sydney filly in the $1 million Stradbroke H...

Melito may get her chance to turn the tables on All-Aged Stakes winner Hot Danish in next month's Group One Doomben 10,000, but a bigger prize awaits the Sydney filly in the $1 million Stradbroke H...

Talented filly Manaudou did everything right in her maiden win at Eagle Farm to convince trainer Kelso Wood bigger things might be in store during the Brisbane winter carnival.Manaudou, named after...

Trainer Barry Baldwin believes Racing Pegasus has the necessary killer instinct to claim the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast.But Baldwin, who has never had a runner in the 1200-...