Notorious One 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...

Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter is warily predicting a rush of European entries for this year's Cox Plate. He says the lack of depth in local WFA ranks will encourage some European...

Money talks...Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock has bought a share in a Grp I winning European 4YO - and the plan is to win the Cox Plate. The horse is Crackerjack King, winner of seven of his ei...

Saturday's Rosehill Apollo Stks winner Melito could be headed for an international campaign. Trainer Gerald Ryan says: ''On that performance I think she proved she can get a mile. She is in those 1...

There are so many 'Think' horses around at the moment, that I'm a little confused, but the one that counts is Cox Plate superstar So You Think and the word is that he is less than a month away fro...

Will they rejuvenate the stable? David Hayes has hardly been setting the racing world on fire recently but maybe 2011 will see his stocks improve? Latest news is that the stable is gaining three we...

Three European Melbourne Cup contenders, headed by Dermot Weld’s mare  Pale Mimosa , can confirm their trip to Australia in the Irish St Leger at The Curragh on Sunday night (AEST), says Racing...