My Little Diva 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...

Prominent corporate bookmaker Mark Read has scoffed at the short quote being served up for Typhoon Tracy in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington."Under the odds," were Read's first words after seei...

Prominent corporate bookmaker Mark Read has scoffed at the short quote being served up for Typhoon Tracy in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington."Under the odds," were Read's first words after seei...

A stakes mission has been confirmed for Bound To Blush after the talented filly maintained her unbeaten record at Canterbury on Wednesday.Bound To Blush took out the Follow Sydney Carnival On Faceb...

PETER Moody believes this is the campaign that former import My Quest For Peace can make his mark.  Moody said My Quest For Peace had the credentials to be a genuine Cox Plate contender, reports ...

Trainer Peter Moody is warming to his Golden Slipper chances with in-form two-year-olds Reward For Effort and Headway.While Reward For Effort will be out to become only the fifth juvenile to comple...

Trainer Peter Moody is warming to his Golden Slipper chances with in-form two-year-olds Reward For Effort and Headway.While Reward For Effort will be out to become only the fifth juvenile to comple...