Northern Great 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...

Star three-year-old Samantha Miss has a June date with the auctioneer but trainer Kris Lees hopes she may still have a future on the racetrack.Samantha Miss has just undergone stem cell surgery on ...

Black Caviar fever arrived in Sydney a couple of days early when a half-brother to the champion mare topped the million dollar mark at the Australian Easter Yearling sale.A huge crowd gathered to w...

Following Viewed’s history-making victory in the 2008 Melbourne Cup, one irate punter, writing in another publication, had this to say: “That’s 10 unplaced runs in a row for the last two Melbourne...