Only One Look 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...

Trainer Gillian Heinrich will take a "look and see" approach with stablemates Military Grace and Pensive Dream when the pair clash in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Military Grace sta...

Two rookies made their claim for a possible $2 million payday at the Gold Coast in January when successful at Eagle Farm.Racing Stripes, a son of Mossman, excelled on the heavy track to score an im...

SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO...In this morning's (Friday May 6) newspaper which must go unnamed, except to mention that it has a marvellous free supplement for the weekend racing, we find the followi...

I have always held the belief that winning form is good form. And it is – generally speaking! The one thing that is a fact, an unassailable one, is that last-start winning form has to be taken ser...

Ken Fythe is hoping Rockpecker can pay the stable's winter carnival expenses before the hobby trainer returns home to his real job in country Victoria following the Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.F...

Ken Fythe is hoping Rockpecker can pay the stable's winter carnival expenses before the hobby trainer returns home to his real job in country Victoria following the Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.F...