Night Tricks 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...

In an ironic aftermath to Saturday's Rubiton Stakes, beaten favourite Karuta Queen got to spend even more time next to Here De Angels, the horse many believe cost her the race.The pair travelled ba...

Doncaster Mile plans for Fifteen Carat have been abandoned in favour of a Stradbroke Handicap mission at Eagle Farm during the Brisbane winter carnival.Trainer Howard Wilson rates the four-year-old...

One thing learned early in my betting life was to get some pattern of approach in both the selection and the staking processes. Racing is definitely not for the guessers of this world, or really ...

Where does the truth lie? Where indeed does the truth lie? What represents good value for a horse? Is it reasonable to argue that “any price about a winner is a good price?”  I’ve always though...

Where does the truth lie? Where indeed does the truth lie? What represents good value for a horse? Is it reasonable to argue that “any price about a winner is a good price?”  I’ve always though...

If you really want to come to grips with the essentials of greyhound racing, with a view to making a profit from betting on the sport, then you have to be prepared to work hard. Easy enough said! ...