Never A Thought 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...

Wide Barriers? They're Never OK!On Australia Day I saw a near-perfect ride from a young three kilo claimer at Caulfield.He rode an in-form chance from a wide draw over 2000 metres (ten furlongs).Fr...

AFTER THE BALLWell we've had it. Been and gone. And nobody could begrudge the winner his prize, could they? Did it the hard way.I thought there could be a happy ending for me at the 250 as my earli...

A BIG BELT - OR A BIG CON?I just watched an unraced two year old backed from around fifteens to $2.35 for the first at Flemington on Saturday.I guess every mug in town will now hop on the bandwagon...

A delayed flight caused Craig Newitt to miss his Epsom Handicap ride but the top Victorian jockey still made his trip count with a Group One victory aboard The Verminator in the Metropolitan at Ran...

In a devastating display that had many searching for new superlatives, So You Think confirmed he was the best horse in the country when he claimed his second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Young jockey...

In a devastating display that had many searching for new superlatives, So You Think confirmed he was the best horse in the country when he claimed his second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Young jockey...