No More Romance 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...

Veteran Master O'Reilly, who was retired after running in his fourth successive Melbourne Cup last spring, is set to make a comeback in Saturday's Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington.The nine-year-old...

Kiwi stayer Red Ruler (100/1) has gained a start in the Caulfield Cup following the scratching of veteran Master O'Reilly. The 2007 Caulfield Cup winner has suffered a bout of colic.In the latest C...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...

Vlad Duric says Master O'Reilly won't be at his top until the Australian Cup but hasn't ruled out the stayer pinching a cheque when he resumes in the Group One Orr Stakes.Duric told trainer Danny O...