One Tin Soldier 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...

Jockey Michael Rodd has warmed to New Zealand-bred stayer Figure Of Speech ahead of Saturday's Herbert Power Handicap at Caulfield.Rodd will reunite with the eight-year-old for the first time since...

Jonathan Riddell did little to shed the tag of jumps jockey with his winning ride in the Manawatu Steeplechase but is hopeful the label will be buried come spring time.At his first ride of the jump...

The Melbourne Racing Club has announced a brace of six-figure bonuses attached to its Spring Carnival features as nominations for the BMW Caulfield Cup, Caulfield Guineas and Schweppes Thousand Gui...

Jockey Stathi Katsidis labelled Shoot Out a potential champion after he claimed his second Group One victory in the AJC Australian Derby at Randwick.His win was also a triumph for trainer John Wall...

Jockey Stathi Katsidis labelled Shoot Out a potential champion after he claimed his second Group One victory in the AJC Australian Derby at Randwick.His win was also a triumph for trainer John Wall...

Warrnambool trainer Jarrod McLean is hopeful veteran sprinter Juggle The Books can extend the run of longshots when he contests his second Group Three Standish Handicap.McLean said the eight-year-o...