Mystic Ascot 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...

He’s been touted as a potential Spring Racing Carnival drawcard for almost a year and today Puissance de Lune emphatically confirmed that the tag was justified with a stunning win in the $220,000...

Black Heart Bart  almost defied a century of history to win this year's  Newmarket Handicap  first-up from a spell and  Darren Weir  indicated there was a strong chance the gelding would be given...

Just too hard...Victorian racing officials will try to have racehorses reclassified for quarantine after the shock withdrawal of Hong Kong star Able One from the Cox Plate. Able One's Aussie traine...

How bad was it...really? All the talk is about trouble-prone Hay List again. And whether connections are covering up the extent of his latest problem. Hay List threw a scare into the Brisbane carni...

Jockey Opie Bosson has delivered an ominous warning to Princess Coup's rivals in the Kelt Capital Stakes saying the mare can only improve on her Stoney Bridge Stakes win.The $NZ2 million ($A1.68 mi...

Now that's predatory handicapping...Looks like Predatory Pricer is a non-starter in the Caulfield Cup because trainer Paul Murray reckons he's been disgracefully weighted on 53.5kgs. PM snarls: 'Th...