Morning Has Broken 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...

Broken will be on trial for a start in the Group Three Standish Handicap when he resumes at Flemington on Saturday against Group One-winning colt Toorak Toff.Ballarat trainer Darren Weir had Broken...

Jockey Paul Goode has undergone surgery in Sydney for spinal injuries suffered in a fall at Queanbeyan.Goode was taken to Canberra Hospital after Monday's fall before being transported to Sydney by...

Jockey Paul Goode has undergone surgery in Sydney for spinal injuries suffered in a fall at Queanbeyan.Goode was taken to Canberra Hospital after Monday's fall before being transported to Sydney by...

Dean Yendall will continue his comeback from injury when he rides sprinter Eight Bills in trackwork at Flemington on Tuesday morning.Yendall, who has won four races from five rides aboard Eight Bil...

Dean Yendall will continue his comeback from injury when he rides sprinter Eight Bills in trackwork at Flemington on Tuesday morning.Yendall, who has won four races from five rides aboard Eight Bil...

Rosehill trainer Con Karakatsanis has a broken leg after a Melbourne trackwork fall. CK was riding a Byron Cozamanis-trained galloper at Caulfield on Friday morning when the fractious galloper whip...