Perception 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...

There's already fiery feedback from the Sal Perna report into racing's so-called darker side... Victorian Jockeys Association CEO Des O'Keefe vehemently disagrees with Perna's finding that the "per...

From NEIL FRANKLYNDEVERRA5m : S Lucock : Byerley10 starts : 2 wins : 3 placesWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : DeadThis mare had done little to attract my attention du...

Is a whiff of reality seeping into racing officialdom as the crisis boils over those bizarre new whip rules? Racing NSW chief Peter V'landys admits: 'Naturally, as an administrator, I'm very concer...

The merger of Sydney's two race clubs is set to go ahead despite a Sydney Turf Club members' vote rejecting the proposal last week.The board of the STC advised its members and NSW racing minister K...

Next month’s meeting between the South Australian Jockeys Association and Thoroughbred Racing South Australia will determine the future of jumps racing at Morphettville. SAJC CEO Brenton Wilki...

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...