No Trumps 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...

Jockey Ric McMahon has been granted a stay of proceedings after appealing a three-month suspension for improper riding.Queensland Racing Limited stewards found McMahon guilty of an improper riding ...

Jockey Ric McMahon has been granted a stay of proceedings after appealing a three-month suspension for improper riding.Queensland Racing Limited stewards found McMahon guilty of an improper riding ...

Queensland Racing Limited stewards have officially lodged an appeal against the recent overturning of a two-month suspension handed down to Sydney apprentice Daniel Ganderton.Stewards are also in t...

Queensland Racing Limited stewards have officially lodged an appeal against the recent overturning of a two-month suspension handed down to Sydney apprentice Daniel Ganderton.Stewards are also in t...

Vision And Power was the revelation of the autumn and now his trainer Joe Pride has sprung a minor surprise of his own.The dual Group One winner will be one of two runners for Pride in Saturday's f...

When Peter Moody decided to almost halve the size of his racing team he never envisaged he would be Melbourne's leading trainer two years later.Moody has challenged the system with his hands-on app...