New Prospect 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...

Danny O'Brien is looking at two-year-old Shamexpress, owned in similar interests as dual Group One winner Shamrocker, as more of a long-term prospect despite his impressive debut win at Flemington....

Dermot Weld is up to his old tricks again, and this time it's the 'will he, won't he' game with his Melbourne Cup contender Profound Beauty. Although the mare has gone into quarantine, Dermot is st...

Chad Schofield has no doubts  De Little Engine , winner of Saturday’s KS Environmental Handicap (2400m) at Sportingbet Park, will run out the Bagot Handicap (2800m) trip.   Schofield said t...

WESTERN Australia breeder Gray Williamson always had an opinion of an orphan colt by his new stallion Oratorio, but such was his temperament that when it came to branding him, he was given 66 over ...

Trainer Brydon Mills is excited about the best prospect he has had for several years in the lightly raced Alberti.The Bertolini gelding, a rising four-year-old, has had only three starts for two wi...

Ben faces the music...Ben Melham - riding in the best form of his career - faces a big moment in his life on Thursday. He'll gived evidence at an adjourned inquiry into his riding tactics on Cross ...