My Gift 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...

MORNINGTON 13/023 Kinesthetic $4 - $3.60 ($2000 & $1000 @ $4)6 Crack A Roadie ($3000 & $2000 @ $1.70), Lannister $51 - $357 Launay ($500 @ $7), Eight Bills $7.50 - $6 ($400 e/w @ $7.50/$2.51), Last...

TAB early price movers for Saturday

Golly. I leave the Generic Ratings for one week and all of a sudden I have an extra fifty horses to add to the list because one week became two! While I was typing their names in I thought I might ...

I wonder if we will ever discover what really happened to Don Scott? The great professional punter was found dead in his bed last year amid rumours that he had killed himself with a massive overdo...

I wonder if we will ever discover what really happened to Don Scott? The great professional punter was found dead in his bed last year amid rumours that he had killed himself with a massive overdo...

ECONOMY DRIVESOn my way to the Rosehill races I stopped off near Parramatta to have a coffee and thought I knew the bloke sitting at the next table. I walked up to him and we recognized each other ...