My House 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...

SHE may be the smallest horse that he’s sat on, but Brent Stanley subscribes to the adage that size doesn’t matter with House Of Stars, which posted her third win in Monday's Land Engineering Ada...

There's been no sign of cider at Tulloch Lodge - only champagne - after an utterly dominant autumn carnival. Pierro's golden run, Laser Hawk's emergence, More Joyous' greatest triumph and a string ...

Ric McMahon made a flying start to his new association with trainer Clarry Conners when he booted home Manor House as part of a winning double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.Conners lured McMahon fro...

By studying the official handicappers ratings for each runner you will have every chance of saving yourself the problem of backing horses on the limit weight that are outclassed. In the 2000m open ...

By studying the official handicappers ratings for each runner you will have every chance of saving yourself the problem of backing horses on the limit weight that are outclassed. In the 2000m open ...

CHAMPION trainer Chris Waller has the same number of runners in the Queen Elizabeth as he did the Doncaster, but the odds say he's facing a massive task to repeat his phenomenal “first four” from...