My Generation 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...

FOURTH-GENERATION bookmaker Tom Waterhouse, who took Melbourne betting rings by storm last year, yesterday rejected suggestions that he had deserted Victorian racing, maintaining that he would fiel...

In 1979, a book by Dr William Quirin changed thoroughbred handicapping forever. The title was Winning At The Races, Computer Discoveries in Thoroughbred Handicapping. In the book, Quirin wrote on...

Frankel lived up to the billing as he ran out a brilliant winner of the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, UK. The build-up to the contest was intense as the star three-year-old miler took on Canford...

Sydney trainer Gerald Ryan arrived at the Gold Coast on Saturday hoping his former top juvenile Schiffer could repay the faith he had in her, and left the course adamant she was back to her brillia...

Ballabriggs carried the story of the most famous family in Grand National history on for another generation at Aintree.Anyone with just a passing interest in racing will know of Ginger McCain, who ...

Lightly-raced filly Dual Chamber confirmed the Shoot Out form line was the best of the three-year-old generation when she notched her first black-type win at Doomben.Having her first start for Toow...