More Than Oil 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...

Australia's most famous horse Black Caviar is in much better shape ahead of her bid to win her 21st consecutive race than when she made history in Adelaide last month, her trainer Peter Moody says....

In the biggest racing stable in the world, owned by a family of fabulously wealthy Arab sheikhs there was a place near the top on Saturday for a man who shampoos the horses and picks up the dung.Mu...

You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach You’ll never drill for oil on a city street I know you’re looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks But there ain’t no coupe de ville hiding at the b...

You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach You’ll never drill for oil on a city street I know you’re looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks But there ain’t no coupe de ville hiding at the b...

You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach You’ll never drill for oil on a city street I know you’re looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks But there ain’t no coupe de ville hiding at the b...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...