Perfect Excuse 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...

Rick Hore-Lacy is best known as the trainer of some of Australia's best sprinters and milers and has rarely turned his sights to stayers.But in Perfect Pecs he believes he has found a colt with the...

March 19My usual Wednesday night activity is to go to www.australianracingboard.com and copy all the weights, paste them into a word document and delete the races that do not satisfy my initial cri...

March 19My usual Wednesday night activity is to go to www.australianracingboard.com and copy all the weights, paste them into a word document and delete the races that do not satisfy my initial cri...

Weather fine, track Prebble - they've been the conditions for racing at the past two meetings, but top apprentice Matthew Chadwick gets a chance to strike at Happy Valley tonight at better odds. P...

Of all the racetrack factors none is as important as the fitness of the racehorse you have under scrutiny for a possible wager. The mighty horses of the past have all been beaten by horses sev...

Colin Little says injury-prone El Segundo is as good as he can get him in his bid for his second Cox Plate victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday.The 2007 winner and runner-up to Fields Of Omagh in 2...