No Doubtfire 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...

Geelong's controversial ThoroughTrack will be closed for racing until April next year but the synthetic circuit will remain available for winter training.Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) on Monday ann...

Pro-Ride Racing Australia has won the contract to fix and maintain Geelong's synthetic track which was closed last month when stones were found in the surface.Pro-Ride was responsible for rectifyin...

Pro-Ride Racing Australia has won the contract to fix and maintain Geelong's synthetic track which was closed last month when stones were found in the surface.Pro-Ride was responsible for rectifyin...

Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) has gone into damage control after stones were found on the ThoroughTrack forcing the abandonment of Wednesday's race meeting at Geelong.Jockeys were alerted to the st...

Former New Zealander Red Square will be looking to firm up plans for next month's Geelong Cup when he stretches out in distance to 1800 metres for the first time at Sandown on Wednesday.A last star...

Iamzeus, one of Danny O'Brien's three Australian Guineas prospects, makes his much-anticipated return to racing when he takes on older horses in the Betfair Handicap at Sandown on Wednesday.The O'R...