One Kind 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...

The luxury of a kind draw in a race where draws can be so unkind looks the edge that Richard Gibson-trained  Gold-Fun  needs to land the $12 million Champions Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday afternoon, ...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh has called a halt to stable star Shocking's autumn campaign, saying he won't race again until the spring.The 2009 Melbourne Cup winner pulled up "a bit jarry and scratchy" aft...

"Don't spray 'em, mate," might well be the advice of a seasoned bettor to a raw novice entering the betting fray for the first time. And what might he mean by that? Simple - the pro is telling the...

"Don't spray 'em, mate," might well be the advice of a seasoned bettor to a raw novice entering the betting fray for the first time. And what might he mean by that? Simple - the pro is telling the...

UK trainer Mark Johnston (remember Double Trigger?) has made a snide attack on Scenic Blast in the wake of the Aussie sprinter's demolition of the King's Stand at Royal Ascot. Johnston, who rarely ...

OH THAT KNOCKOUT HORSE!Brian refers to a different kind of knockout horse. Mine are those ###***!!!%%'s that come along and blouse your Trifecta, or your First Four, or, worst of all, the final leg...