Percy 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...

Highly rated UK import  Lord Van Percy  has tendon problems and will be sent immediately for a spell. The Andrew Balding-trained five-year-old had scans on Monday which revealed tendon strain. “...

Van Percy has been likened to Bauer, who came within a nose of winning the 2008 Melbourne Cup, by part-owners OTI Racing after the four-year-old arrived in Australia for a spring campaign, reports...

OTI Racing have Melbourne Cup ambitions for Van Percy, an impressive winner of the Summer Stakes at Goodwood in England overnight. Van Percy is prepared by Andrew Balding, who won the Mackinnon S...

Racing Victoria has today announced two international horses here for the Melbourne spring will race under different names. UK mare  Ambivalent , trained by emerging young mentor Roger Varian, wi...

Champion Australian jockey Craig Williams will ride  Kelinni  in an £80,000 ($A144,659) 2800-metre handicap at Goodwood in the UK on Tuesday (12.40am Wednesday AEST).  Kelinni , now owned by Au...

The Spring Racing Carnival preparations for the international horses completing quarantine at the TAB International Horse Centre in Werribee continue to ramp up with a number of gallopers impressi...