New Millennium 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...

This is the second and final extract from James Quinn’s best-selling book The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping, Leading Ideas and Methods, which we have chosen as one of the 10 best racing books ...

Legendary English trainer Henry Cecil has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.The 68-year-old is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest trainers in history.After serv...

In the new millennium a new breed of punter has surfaced. They use form databases arid electronic formguides, along with the telephone and the Internet, which have all but eliminated the need to g...

It began with a thoroughly sensible notion that turned 300 years of conventional horse racing wisdom on its head.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, now the ruler of Dubai, decided in the early ...

Nash Rawiller is free to stick with Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes following Gai Waterhouse's decision to send Theseo for a spell.Rawiller won the Doncaster...

Nash Rawiller is free to stick with Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes following Gai Waterhouse's decision to send Theseo for a spell.Rawiller won the Doncaster...