Patchwork 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...

Blake Spriggs watched Squamosa and was amazed at the colt's improvement but never dreamt he'd get the opportunity to partner him on race day.Squamosa's wet track ability has him the dominant favour...

Blake Spriggs watched Squamosa and was amazed at the colt's improvement but never dreamt he'd get the opportunity to partner him on race day.Squamosa's wet track ability has him the dominant favour...

Blake Spriggs watched Squamosa and was amazed at the colt's improvement but never dreamt he'd get the opportunity to partner him on race day.Squamosa's wet track ability has him the dominant favour...

Blake Spriggs watched Squamosa and was amazed at the colt's improvement but never dreamt he'd get the opportunity to partner him on race day.Squamosa's wet track ability has him the dominant favour...

Apprentice Blake Spriggs plans to divide his time between Newcastle and Sydney after ending his full-time association with Tulloch Lodge.Spriggs has had his indentures transferred from trainer Gai ...

AFTER a superb Cox Plate performance, New Zealand's best thoroughbred, Jimmy Choux, returns for another shot at Australian group 1 glory in tomorrow's Emirates Stakes at Flemington, reports Craig Y...