One Target 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...

International star Takeover Target outlasted Australia's reigning champion sprinter Apache Cat after a thrilling home straight duel to win the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.Nine-year-old T...

Unbeaten galloper Target is back after a series of setbacks and will have his first start in a year at Sandown on Wednesday.The Tale Of The Cat four-year-old impressed at his only two starts in Feb...

Unbeaten galloper Target is back after a series of setbacks and will have his first start in a year at Sandown on Wednesday.The Tale Of The Cat four-year-old impressed at his only two starts in Feb...

In-form sprinter Kroner heads 23 entries for next week's Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford.Formerly known as the Pacesetter, the race was renamed in honour of champion Takeover Target who races in ...

In-form sprinter Kroner heads 23 entries for next week's Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford.Formerly known as the Pacesetter, the race was renamed in honour of champion Takeover Target who races in ...

Takeover Target has continued his impressive build-up to Saturday's Group One The Goodwood with a gallop on the course proper at Morphettville with Jay Ford back in the saddle.The jockey returns to...