Moxie 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...

Three-year-old Eagle Regiment promises to lift himself well beyond Class Three next season and the gelding should cap off a fine first preparation by winning the Members Cup (1,000m) at Sha Tin tod...

Kyneton trainer Charles Cassar is flirting with the idea of targeting the Winter Championship series with promising wet tracker Ortayga.The four-year-old hasn't raced past 1200 metres but Cassar ha...

Joe Pride loves the challenge of training tried horses and is enjoying working with recent Victorian acquisition Pursuit who makes his stable debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.The lightly-raced si...

Geelong trainer Vin Malady has brought forward the race debut of Manhattan Blonde to avoid running the well-named filly in a heatwave early next week.Malady planned to run the two-year-old at Moe o...

Trainer Darren Weir has made a change of plans and will run Oak Heart in Saturday's 2500-metre handicap at Moonee Valley as a lead-up to the Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington.Weir had been ...

Trainer Darren Weir has made a change of plans and will run Oak Heart in Saturday's 2500-metre handicap at Moonee Valley as a lead-up to the Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington.Weir had been ...