Obligated 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 Limited (RVL) chief steward Terry Bailey has refused to confirm or deny that Richard Laming is the trainer who has been told two of his horses have returned swab irregularities to t...

Melbourne Cup weights are out and a Japanese stayer heads the entries. Racing Victoria (RV) Executive General Manager (Racing)  Greg Carpenter, released the weightswhich have Admire Rakti the top...

Undefeated superstar Black Caviar will be asked to carry a record weight if her connections change their immediate plans and decide to pursue a second Lexus Newmarket Handicap victory.Racing Victor...

Stablemates Little Surfer Girl and Deer Valley are barely registering a blip on punters' radars ahead of Saturday's Flight Stakes with More Joyous all the rage for the Group One race, but none of t...

Stablemates Little Surfer Girl and Deer Valley are barely registering a blip on punters' radars ahead of Saturday's Flight Stakes with More Joyous all the rage for the Group One race, but none of t...

We've all known the experience. You set out on a day's betting full of confidence and keen to land the money with your first bet. But what happens? It loses! How a punter reacts to that losing ...